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by TimTheTinker
529 days ago
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Not just Lisp, but any language that has strong support for either literal in-language data expressions like JSON or YAML, or meta-language support like Ruby, Elixir, JSX/TSX (or both!). Every time you write a React JSX expression, terraform file, config.yaml, etc., you're using a DSL. I once wrote a JSON DSL in Ruby that I used for a template-based C# code generator. This enabled a .NET reporting web app to create arbitrarily shaped reports from arbitrary rdmbs tables, saving our team thousands of hours. Another team would upload report data to a SQL Server instance, write a JSON file in the DSL, check it against a tiny schema validator website, submit it, and their reports would soon be live. One of the most productive decisions I ever made. |
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