Read Chapter 14: DSL from “The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes”.
Integration is a major issue. DSLs are rarely used in isolation. They integrate in existing software systems, to exploit and combine the data and capabilities of these systems in novel ways. This integration constrains the choices for the technical infrastructure one can use to implement the language, making most of the DSL literature irrelevant.
Maintenance : If at all successful, your DSL project will live for years, will require adjustment to evolving needs and even more importantly, to reflect experience gained by using it. In practice, as with most serious software projects, the development effort will be dwarfed by maintenance. This is where it all happens. This is the part that truly matters.
With these two focuses in mind, we deliver
industrial-grade DSL projects.
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Raincode Labs is the best partner
for your DSL project TECHNOLOGY
We have been around for years and will be around for years to come. We are in it for the long run. We are not in the business of delivering a piece of software and running, avoiding responsibility. We have revolving agreements, sometimes spanning ten years or more, to guarantee continuous support for past projects. We have skin in the game.
We have more specialized engineers than anyone in our field, covering issues ranging from native code generation, JIT, IDEs, embedded language design, etc., together with extensive domain expertise in finance, transportation, insurance, and more.
Last but not least, we have some of the most significant production-level references.
The most prestigious references
All DSL projects are different. That’s their very nature. Still, references matter, as they demonstrate the breadth of Raincode Labs’ expertise.
RCMS is a multi-year DSL project delivered to Mastercard to formalize validation and mapping rules for message formats representing credit card operations as supported by different networks. RCMS is more than a language project. It covers most aspects of software development, including IDE support, specification, optimized code generation, test generation and more.
ERTMSFormalSpecs (or EFS) is a DSL used to model the behaviour rules described informally in the ETCS specifications, which define the interoperability rules for railway control systems from different vendors to interact gracefully. It includes a graphical notation for automata, an animator, a language to specify braking curves over multiple segments, etc.
The Raincode Scripting Language is a language designed and used internally by Raincode to implement source code analysis and transformation tasks. It includes primitives to process parse trees and sets of nodes, allowing for the compact expression of tasks that would otherwise require ten times more code.
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