On: Fantastic DSLs and where to find them

[norswap]

The crispness and terseness is definitely a big part of Kotlin's appeal.

What I find suprising is that these ideas don't exactly seem breakthrough. Why aren't more language implementing them or taking them further?

[pmontra → norswap]

Because they're not new. Check this XML DSL for Ruby, March 2008 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/ruby/xmlbuilder-a-ruby-dsl-ca...

What's happened here is that it's being done in a statically typed language which is harder than in a dynamically typed on. So, good job done.

[tormeh → pmontra]

It's not new in statically typed languages either. There are already too many DSLs in Scala...