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Re:Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video] by embedding-shape on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:21PM (#47591443)
Yes, maybe that's the sort of DSL you're talking about, the other person mentioned "Clojure style discourages building DSLs" which I'm fairly sure to be about the other DSL and is also true, hence the whole "you're talking/reading past each other".
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Re:Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video] by midnight_eclair on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:30AM (#47598337)
that doesn't make sense, why would they be talking about departure from traditional lisps if they weren't talking about macro-based DSLs?
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Re:Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video] by embedding-shape on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @11:52AM (#47602536)
> Clojure style discourages building DSLs and the like and prefers to remain close to Clojure types and constructs

This to me, seems to indicate they're talking about "DSLs not built with Clojure types and constructs", I'm just trying to have the most charitable reading of what people write and help you understand why it seems you're not actually disagreeing, just talking about different things.

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Re:Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video] by midnight_eclair on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:03PM (#47602681)
> DSLs not built with Clojure types and constructs

and in context of lisps that still most likely means macro-based DSLs using traditional lisp constructs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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