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My hobby project is a niche language.

• cpeterso 5y ago
  But are you writing your niche language in a niche language? Or even better, self-hosted in your niche language itself? :) Just curious: what’s your niche language called?
  • Vivtek 5y ago
    It's written in Perl - I think Perl is a niche language these days, right? I wrote a version of part of it in Racket, too, which definitely qualifies. I keep thinking I might move development to Zig. The language is Decl. I think at this point it's more a notation than a language; it relies on a host language for execution. My understanding of what I set out to do has evolved over time, and the past couple of years I've thought of it more as a DSL along the lines of SQL (not in that it's used for database access, for which we already have SQL; I just mean that it's used by embedding it in something else that defines actions).