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Whether these restricted languages are doable as embedded DSLs in general-purpose language remains to be seen. There have been attempts that work pretty well (Accelerate for Haskell is the one I know best), but they are limited in expressibility, and the ergonomics (type errors and conceptual clarity) are not great.

Ziggurat[0] was an attempt at a general-purpose system to communicate static properties of DSLs past the more general host language (where they don't necessarily apply). It probably falls under the "ergonomics are not great" category though.

0: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/papers/ziggurat-jfp.pdf



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