description: Domain Specific Language

DSL

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are super interesting because they're tailor-made for specific tasks or industries, like SQL for databases or HTML for web pages.

DSLs can reduce code complexity and increase productivity for specific tasks.

A Domain Specific Language is a programming language with a higher level of abstraction optimized for a specific class of problems. (a.k.a) Specialized to a particular application domain.

15+ DSL available

Some popular ones are

HTML - HyperText Markup Language

SQL - Structured Query Language

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets

MD - Markdown (github readme.md or https://stackedit.io/app#)

Mermaid - Mermaid (https://mermaid.live/)

Sed - Text Transformation

XML - eXtended Markup Language

UML - Unified Data Modeling

Terraform - Manage Cloud Resources

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