DSL development: 7 recommendations for Domain Specific Language design based on Domain-Driven Design

DSL development: 7 recommendations for Domain Specific Language design based on Domain-Driven Design

The term Domain-Specific Language (DSL) is heard a lot nowadays. A DSL is a language developed to address the need of a given domain. This domain can be a problem domain (e.g. insurance, healthcare, transportation) or a system aspect (e.g. data, presentation, business logic, workflow). The idea is to have a language with limited concepts which are all focused on a specific domain. This leads to higher level languages improving.