When it's an embedded dsl you always have the escape hatch of the entire host language - and it is not shocking to use it: being in an eDSL does not mean that y

When it's an embedded dsl you always have the escape hatch of the entire host language - and it is not shocking to use it: being in an eDSL does not mean that you have to agree to it religiously, it's always a case-by-case engineering tradeoff. Whereas when in an opinionated language and you cannot do what you want... Ugly hacks such as people using bash scripts, mustache templates, etc ... to preprocess their code to get what they want quickly happen.