But before I do I thought I’d ask everyone out there (who are interested in such a book), what would you like to see in it?
One possibility I’ve been tossing around is to turn it into a techniques or cookbook-style book. I’ve been reading through “Designing Interfaces” by Jennifer Tidwell. In this book she organizes the interface solutions into different sections and goes through each one with an example and what it solves and when to use it. I really like this idea (but others might not). Originally my book was a “How do I get started designing DSLs?” and “What in the world are they and why should I care?”.
Another thing I’ve been thinking about is ditching the Java part and making it Groovy only. This appeals to me because I feel that Groovy is much cleaner to implement an Internal DSL than Java is. Can you do DSLs in Java? Of course you can, but I’m not sure that I can give it the best treatment because it isn’t what I’m passionate about.
So, sound off in the comments, let me know what topics you’d like to see covered, what challenges have you faced in writing a DSL (or API/Framework) that you would have liked someone to trailblaze for you to show the dead-ends first?
