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victorNicollet on Nov 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages (2...

The host language is the language that you are using to write the compiler/interpreter. I suppose the grandparent is asking the question in order to recommend a parser generator for your use case. From your GitHub profile, I assume it's JS or TypeScript ?

danielvaughn on Nov 9, 2023 [–]

Ah I see, thanks. Probably Typescript, although I'm considering Rust as well. I'm using tree-sitter for the lexer.

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