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by jayd16 161 days ago
If it's a DSL then it's "writing a new language" and you're just calling from a native API, no?
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Embedded DSLs are libraries. They are the epitome of the advice to write a library. It just so happens that the library abstractions could map to a language if you wanted to add parsing and all of the other machinery.