It seems to me that the main reason DSLs aren't more widely adopted is that any DSL will be unsupported by other tools developers consider more important. Your IDE won't have syntax highlighting and auto completion for it, and a lot of developers nowadays seem crippled without those. Linters and semantic checkers won't understand it. Nor will debuggers. There will be no mocking libraries or makefile rules for it. The list goes on and on.
These are problems that every new non-domain-specific language has to address. It's quite a lot, and most of it is pretty tedious compared to designing the language itself. So even those who try to create DSLs often skip most of the "extra" bits, and other developers learn to hate DSLs.
These are problems that every new non-domain-specific language has to address. It's quite a lot, and most of it is pretty tedious compared to designing the language itself. So even those who try to create DSLs often skip most of the "extra" bits, and other developers learn to hate DSLs.