Building User-Friendly DSLs

Domain-Specific Languages Made Easy shows you how to design and build modern DSLs for business users. Drawing on years of industry experience, author Meinte Boersma lays out an iterative process for creating languages accessible todomain experts such as operations specialists, data analysts, and financialexperts. You'll start with an overview of software language engineering before diving into the unique projectional editing paradigm that makes it easy to produce DSLs for business. There are no special tools or proprietary software required--you'll work with an open source JavaScript stack that ensures the techniques you learn are easy to port between projects.

Meinte Boersma has been a practitioner of model-driven software development and software language engineering since 2007. He has given workshops on DSL, participated in organizing the Language Workbench Challenge, and has spoken at conferences on DSLs.