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If I could buy the software equivalent of spending "$100 to just buy a complete crosscut sled made of aluminum with a good design that will last forever", I wou
by angry_octet 7y ago
If I could buy the software equivalent of spending "$100 to just buy a complete crosscut sled made of aluminum with a good design that will last forever", I would have done that.
That is arguably what P/S/SaaS is, instead of building bespoke or Chef'd instances. But I'm not one to reimplement something in F77 in Julia just to have something to blog about.
Regardless, sometimes a DSL is just what you need, and you'd better have someone who likes creating compilers do it. Otherwise it's like when builders do wood things without talking to a carpenter first.