The word language in the phrase may lead you to expect a DSL would use syntax to express certain semantics. Unlike a general-purpose language like Java, a DSL is fairly limited in scope and ...

And what Java has done is said, ‘hmm, okay, let’s take some of those ideas and bring those into the language,’” said Ritter.

7 Java and JVM language frameworks compared. My evaluations here are, of course, highly subjective. Notice I’ve given all these frameworks my top rating for API support.

I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt that such an apples-to-apples comparison was unfair. The general consensus from the Python community ...