[eternityforest]

General programming languages were meant from the start to be something like what they are today. They're intended to manage complexity, not pretend nobody will ever want to do complex things.

They are also not application specific. Language design is hard. DSLs are made up by people who's main project isn't the language.

Sometimes the motive for a DSL is something like "I don't like how this takes 5 lines of code in JS, if I made my own language it would only take 3"