[dybber]

My take is that all embedded DSLs are bad. By embedding your DSL in another language you might gain certain things for free, but you also sacrifice a lot of control and often extra boilerplate code is necessary.

The exception of course is Lisp where embedded languages can feel like standalone languages.

[dybber]

Stated in another way: standalone are sometimes bad, but embedded DSLs are almost always bad.

[devonkim]

From what I’ve heard of and used myself LINQ works pretty well as an embedded DSL because it’s more like a language extension with some solid semantics rather than a classic embedded DSL that is not terribly far from transpilers