4 Project idea meeting
Due: Sign up here with a partner by the end of Friday, January 24: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11uvIqtb9E8oB7MaMZcUjpgx0VjgYMA6p1l34-T3Up-s/edit?usp=sharing
Over the course of the remainder of the semester, you and a partner will propose, design, and implement a new DSL in Racket. Your DSL may take inspiration from libraries or DSLs that exist on other platforms (such as those at DSLs in the wild), or might be a totally new design.
I will meet with each pair for 20 minutes to discuss your ideas for your project. Please sign up by filling in the table linked above by the end of Friday, January 24. If you cannot make any of the times listed, please email me (cc’ing your partner) to schedule an alternative time.
New partners
You may want to find a new partner for the project that shares interests with you. You can post about your interests on Piazza. You might also reach out to someone who presented for homework 1 about a DSL in a domain that you find interesting. (Of course, let your current partner know of your plans!)
To have a variety of interesting projects, please consider another topic if someone else has already signed up with a main project idea that addresses the same domain as yours.
Prepartion for the meeting
At the meeting, be ready to discuss:
What is the purpose of the DSL you propose? What domain does it address, and what problems does it solve in that domain? What problems are out of scope for your project?
What domain concepts, operations, and composition patterns will it support?
An example of a program in your imagined DSL.
- What advantage over general-purpose code do you aim to provide?
Syntax that is more concise or more familiar to domain experts
Performance optimizations
Static semantics
How will DSL code interact with general-purpose code?
Will your implementation need to use macros that transform entire DSL programs, or smaller macros on top of an embedding?