We should Stop Claiming Generality in our Domain-Specific Language Papers
Abstract
Our community believes that new domain-specific languages should be as general as possible to increase their impact. However, I argue in this essay that we should stop claiming generality for new domain-specific languages. More general domain-specific languages induce more boilerplate code. Moreover, domain-specific languages are co-developed with their applications in practice, and tend to be specific for these applications. Thus, I argue we should stop claiming generality in favor of documenting how domain-specific language based software development is beneficial to the overall software development process. The acceptance criteria for scientific literature should make the same shift: accepting good domain-specific language engineering practice, instead of the next language to rule them all.
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@article{arxiv.1902.05464,
title = {We should Stop Claiming Generality in our Domain-Specific Language Papers},
author = {Daco Harkes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05464},
year = {2019}
}