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DSLs are a waste of time (leebriggs.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/devops

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TLDR: terraform bad, pulumi good

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[–] onlinepersona 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lua fall into that category too. It can be embedded to allow writing plugins or extensions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And?

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LUA is a programming language. Being embeddable doesn't stop something from being a DSL. It's not an attribute that should factor in the distinction between DSL and general purpose programming language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ok i think i get the point. A "generic programming language" could be used as a "domain specific language" in some context. Is that what you mean?