Comment by tjchear

The author makes a good point about language capabilities enabling certain libraries to be written, just as DSL makes it easier to reason about problems and implement solutions with the right kind of abstractions and language ergonomics (usually at the expense of expressivity and flexibility).

There’s a time in my life where I designed languages and wrote compilers. One type of language I’ve always thought about that could be made more approachable to non technical users is an outline-liked language with English like syntaxes and being a DSL, the shape of the outline would be very much fixed and on a guardrail, and can’t express arbitrary instructions like normal programming languages, but an escape hatch (to more expressive language) for advanced users can be provided. An area where this DSL can be used would be common portal admin app generation and workflow automation.

That said, with the advent of AI assistants, I’m not sure if there is still room for my DSL idea.