A language that would make you very productive while solving the same kinds of problems over and over. So perhaps there is a set of problems on which you work very often and for which it could make sense to create a DSL.
Think of HTML or Latex: you could draw on the screen or generate documents in Java but it would be cumbersome, with these DSLs instead you can create documents very easily but they are limited to that specific domain. Domain Specific Languages (DSL) instead focus on solving very well a specific set of problems. So why bother creating a new one? There are many possible answers to that.įirst of all, there are many different kinds of languages: do you want to create a general purpose programming language (GPL) or a domain specific one? The first kind includes languages like Java or Scala: languages intended to write decent enough solutions to a large set of problems. There are already an infinite number of programming languages. in future articles, we will dive into the implementation details. In this article, the first of the series, I will present an overview of the strategy and various tools involved in creating our very own programming language for the JVM.
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