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I'm very interested in the emergence of high-level, low-tech DSLs that are highly adoptable by traditionally non-techy people. For instance, I'm trying to build a language specifically for UI designers.

It's technically code, but it's meant for description rather than implementation, and it's designed to be easily understood by people who've never been exposed to data structures or flow control.

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IMO high-level, low-tech DSLs are under-explored. Lots of possibilities there. I don't think you're necessarily limited to just text-based DSLs though; there's interesting opportunities when you pair with a UI. For example, see Pharo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuZyOKa91o

absolutely!

I have something that feels close to most of the things on your list. But it's diametrically opposite a DSL. Instead it's a _low_ level stack where you can easily drill down to understand how anything works. Programs come out a little verbose, but I find it fun. Here's Game of Life running on Qemu: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105727343646129865

Here's what I hope will become the shell for this computer (live-updating, postfix): https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2min-2020-12-06

The big caveat: I have _no_ idea yet how to build a network for this computer. It has a screen and a keyboard, and I can probably get some sort of persistent storage. But that's about it for a while.

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