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 2020 Workshop Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	4th Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet-of-Things, 1st International Workshop on Modeling Smart Cities, and 5th International Workshop on Open and Original Problems in Software Language Engineering co-located with Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations federation of conferences (STAF 2020, ) Bergen, Norway, June 22-26, 2020
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
Publisher	RWTH Aachen
Volume	2707
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

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, & L. M. Kristensen (Eds.), STAF 2020 Workshop Proceedings: 4th Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet-of-Things, 1st International Workshop on Modeling Smart Cities, and 5th International Workshop on Open and Original Problems in Software Language Engineering co-located with Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations federation of conferences (STAF 2020, ) Bergen, Norway, June 22-26, 2020 (pp. 85-94). Article 5 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2707). CEUR. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2707/

Tomassetti, Federico ; Zaytsev, Vadim . / Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages. STAF 2020 Workshop Proceedings: 4th Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet-of-Things, 1st International Workshop on Modeling Smart Cities, and 5th International Workshop on Open and Original Problems in Software Language Engineering co-located with Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations federation of conferences (STAF 2020, ) Bergen, Norway, June 22-26, 2020. editor / Loli Burgueño ; Lars Michael Kristensen. CEUR, 2020. pp. 85-94 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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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 2020 Workshop Proceedings: 4th Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet-of-Things, 1st International Workshop on Modeling Smart Cities, and 5th International Workshop on Open and Original Problems in Software Language Engineering co-located with Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations federation of conferences (STAF 2020, ) Bergen, Norway, June 22-26, 2020., 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. <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2707/>

Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages. / Tomassetti, Federico; Zaytsev, Vadim .
STAF 2020 Workshop Proceedings: 4th Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet-of-Things, 1st International Workshop on Modeling Smart Cities, and 5th International Workshop on Open and Original Problems in Software Language Engineering co-located with Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations federation of conferences (STAF 2020, ) Bergen, Norway, June 22-26, 2020. ed. / Loli Burgueño; Lars Michael Kristensen. CEUR, 2020. p. 85-94 5 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2707).

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