5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake
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Wasp, a full-stack JS framework built by Y Combinator alumni, spent years building a custom DSL/language to define app specs — only to discover the language itself was the biggest barrier to adoption. IDE tooling was a nightmare, and developers kept asking "why a new language?" The real value was always Wasp's high-level app understanding at compile time, not the syntax — so they're replacing it with TypeScript.
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