DSLs - 'faith no more' reloaded

July 22, 2009 | 1 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

Some month ago I was skeptical about lightheartedly jumping into DSL-creation, and I was wondering if I had lost my faith.

Then I realized that I was not the only one: Other people have lost their faith...

Now I realize this was all a spiritual tempest in a teacup. The wisdom was always there, you only had to listen to the right preachers:

There are more external DSLs out there than most people realize and more often than not, I see companies trying to get rid of them.

This is an interesting post by Michael Feather.
I did not know that Erlang was dropped by Ericsson (aka. open-sourced) because thy were concerned with their ability to hire and train developers.

The thing to remember about DSLs is that they are a commitment and the commitment doesn’t end when the initial implementation is done.