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Markus Voelter

The minimum infrastructure for running languages and models

In my last post I wrote about what constitutes a language, and what you might want to call the data structures that don’t. In this one I…

5 min readJun 24, 2022

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The minimum infrastructure for running languages and models

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Markus Voelter

When is something a (domain-specific) language?

Customers often ask me: what is a DSL? How is a language different from … and then they mention all kinds of other terms. This is a great…

7 min readJun 18, 2022

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When is something a (domain-specific) language?

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Markus Voelter

Thinking vs. Coding

When I was growing up as a programmer, it was the time of object-oriented-everything. You were first supposed to do object-oriented…

4 min readJun 5, 2022

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Thinking vs. Coding

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Why documents shouldn’t be the basis of a domain analysis

DSL design requires that you first understand the domain for which you want to build the language, so the analysis of how stuff works is a…

4 min readApr 22, 2022

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Why documents shouldn’t be the basis of a domain analysis

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Markus Voelter

Introducing a tool successfully

A couple of concrete steps to take

3 min readMar 26, 2022

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Why it is so hard to change established processes in organizations

Or why so many DSL projects fail for non-technical reasons

4 min readNov 16, 2021

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Why it is so hard to change established processes in organizations

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Markus Voelter

The split brain of DSLs

Why it isn’t enough for a DSL to just capture the domain.

4 min readOct 27, 2021

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The Language Testing Triangle

I often get the question: how do you test a language — or more specifically, a language implementation in a tool like MPS or Xtext. That’s…

4 min readSep 21, 2021

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The Language Testing Triangle

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Tool Lock-in vs. Semantic Lock-in

There’s a lot of discussion about lock-in relative to vendors and tools. I am confronted with these discussions in the context of…

3 min readSep 10, 2021

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Why does everybody hate programming (and why this must change)?

DSLs and Subject Matter Experts

5 min readAug 29, 2021

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Markus Voelter

Markus Voelter

software (language) engineer, science & engineering podcaster, cross-country glider pilot. On medium mostly for the software stuff.

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