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kloop | 9 months ago

> Or see C#'s LINQ.

This might be one of the rare times it's worth it. The C# team alread has the experience and tooling to maintain a language. Maintaining a DSL might be a reasonable choice for them.

It's rarely a good idea for app or library devs to make a similar decision.

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satoru42|9 months ago

Yes, this reminds me of meta-programming in languages like Python, it's useful if you want to create a framework like Django, but if you work on products, chances are good you should not use it.