DSLs.md

DSL course references

Disclaimer: the boundaries of what really qualifies as "domain-specific" as opposed to "somewhat specialized or different" isn't always crisp, so I'm casting a slightly wide net.

Courses

http://cs448h.stanford.edu

Meta

• Terra - a language for making high-performance DSLs - staged programming/macro-based embedding - Lua + macros + LLVM
• Scala LMS - type-based embedding - types!!!

Shading and rendering

The key root of much DSL work in graphics.

• Shade trees - the origin
• A Language for Shading and Lighting calculations - RenderMan; the popularizer
• RTSL - shading for GPUs - all about "computational frequencies"
• Spark - mix-in inheritance for shader modularity; computational frequencies pushed farther
• The other RTSL - "Ray Tracing Shading Language"
• OptiX - fast, user-programmable ray tracing on GPUs using continuation-passing transformations

Related, but 3D printing: OpenFab

Deep learning

• Torch
• Theano
• TensorFlow
• Caffe, arguably

Image processing

• Popi [Holzmann 1988 - beyond photography] - from Bell Labs
• Pan - Haskell!
• Halide
• Darkroom - restricted "Halide" to hardware/FPGAs

Physical simulation

• Ebb
• Simit

Graph analysis

GraphLab

Stream processing

Brook, CUDA

ORMs

• ActiveRecord

Misc

Configuration

Nix, Docker, …

Testing

Formatting

• printf, scanf

Lexing & Parsing

• …

Shell

sh, csh, tcsh, bash, zsh, fish PowerShell