Agreed that the scientific community are the worst offenders, but I don't think it's just them. There are examples all over, but I don't think this conversation

Agreed that the scientific community are the worst offenders, but I don't think it's just them. There are examples all over, but I don't think this conversation will benefit from their enumeration. I will point out that you're letting SQLAlchemy off the hook because their DSL is "opt in" and it's par for the course for DSLs; however, their DSL is not really "opt in", it's the standard way for building queries. Further, "DSLs will be DSLs" is kind of missing the point, which is that the Go community rejects these kinds of hacky DSLs while the Python community embraces them. At the end of the day, I notice a significant difference in wanton magic between the Go and Python communities, and it's big enough to make me prefer Go over Python when given the choice (despite that I've used Python far longer and more regularly).