[diego_moita]

> We stop calling the useful ones “DSLs” so this is a truism.

Bingo!

Lua was born as a DSL for configuration files. Today is way more than that.

JSON was born as a DSL for describing data, a less verbose alternative to XML. It is more than that.

[eternityforest]

JSON never got new features. We just made new things around it.

Which is why it's amazing for data interchange and obnoxious to directly interact with by hand.

[AtlasBarfed]

It should be a rule that all mature configuration languages become turning complete