Stop Torturing Your Colleagues with DSLs
(medium.com)
In the programming world, whenever a new technology or concept emerges, there’s always someone eager to experiment with it. They believe it’s a sign of their passion for learning and technical depth. Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are one such concept that has been repeatedly misunderstood and misused. Let me be blunt: in most cases, creating a new DSL is nothing short of torturing your colleagues and wasting your company’s resources.
In the programming world, whenever a new technology or concept emerges, there’s always someone eager to experiment with it. They believe it’s a sign of their passion for learning and technical depth. Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are one such concept that has been repeatedly misunderstood and misused. Let me be blunt: in most cases, creating a new DSL is nothing short of torturing your colleagues and wasting your company’s resources.