Designing a Domain-Specific Language That Perfectly Solves Your Problem

Designing a Domain-Specific Language That Perfectly Solves Your Problem

Watch a 24-minute conference talk from EclipseCon 2023 where Irina Artemeva of TypeFox GmbH explores the art of creating domain-specific languages (DSLs). Learn why DSLs can be more effective than general-purpose programming languages for specific problems, and discover proven best practices from over 7 years of commercial DSL development experience. Explore real production examples, understand how to identify suitable problems for DSL solutions, extract requirements and constraints, apply language design patterns, and implement DSLs using frameworks like Langium, Xtext, or JetBrains MPS. Master the balance between creating concise yet expressive DSLs that are feature-complete without reimplementing general-purpose language functionality.