Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages

Federico Tomassetti; Vadim  Zaytsev

Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages

Federico Tomassetti, Vadim Zaytsev

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Abstract

Given all the different benefits that domain specific languages are reported
to produce, why are they not a widely adopted practice? The essence of the
question has roots in industrial experience of the two authors of this report,
but it was put out as a discussion starter at OOPSLE 2020. During the
discussion session itself, there were some possible reasons voiced and
possibly related concerns expressed. In this report, we try to condense those
in a short coherent text. Not claiming any generality and fully acknowledging
the anecdotal nature of our evidence, we still think that such a conversation
is useful to have within the SLE community.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	STAF Workshop Proceedings
Editors	Loli Burgueño, Lars Michael Kristensen
Publisher	CEUR
Pages	85-94
Publication status	Published - 24 Oct 2020
Event	5th International Workshop on Open and Original Problems in Software Language Engineering, OOPSLE 2020 - Virtual Event Duration: 22 Jun 2020 → 26 Jun 2020 Conference number: 5 http://oopsle.github.io/2020/index.html

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	2707

Workshop

Workshop	5th International Workshop on Open and Original Problems in Software Language Engineering, OOPSLE 2020
Abbreviated title	OOPSLE 2020
City	Virtual Event
Period	22/06/20 → 26/06/20
Internet address	http://oopsle.github.io/2020/index.html

Keywords

software language engineering
Domain-specific languages
Industry application

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Tomassetti, F & Zaytsev, V 2020, Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages. in L Burgueño & LM Kristensen (eds), STAF Workshop Proceedings., 5, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2707, CEUR, pp. 85-94, 5th International Workshop on Open and Original Problems in Software Language Engineering, OOPSLE 2020, Virtual Event, 22/06/20. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2707/oopslepaper5.pdf>

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