Languages for Domain Experts, Not Just for Programmers

Productivity has improved each time programming languages have raised the level of abstraction. This trend continues today with languages that narrow the scope they address — referred to as domain-specific languages (DSLs). However, many of these DSLs are built by developers for developers and tend to concentrate on the solution domain, like code.

Even better results can be achieved when a DSL is closely aligned with the problem domain — raising abstraction beyond the code. Such languages foster collaboration, enable domain experts to verify and validate their designs, and, in many cases, allow the generation of code, configurations, tests, reports, and more.