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	Creating a Domain Specific Language in Kotlin Using Type-Safe Builders

In February 2019, the Software Institute started its SI Seminar Series. Every Thursday afternoon, a researcher of the Institute will publicly give a short talk on a software engineering argument of their choice. Examples include, but are not limited to novel interesting papers, seminal papers, personal research overview, discussion of preliminary research ideas, tutorials, and small experiments.

Thursday

24.03

Online on MS Teams

16:30-17:30


	Aron Fiechter Software Institute, Switzerland

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Abstract:
A domain-specific language (DSL) is any language that is specialized to be used in a given domain. Some examples include HTML, SQL, GraphViz, and Gradle. Thanks to specific features, the Kotlin programming language is very well suited to create what are called embedded or internal DSLs.
In this talk, we will first look at some features of Kotlin and learn the concept of type-safe builders. Then, in a live programming session, we will see how we can leverage these concepts and features to create a small DSL to draw simple geometric figures.

Biography:
Aron Fiechter is a Junior R&D Engineer at CodeLounge, the center for software research & development of the Software Institute (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. He received his Master’s degree in Software & Data Engineering at USI Lugano in 2020. He is interested in tools and principles relevant for quality software development and is fascinated by the elegance of functional programming languages like Scala. More info at aronfiechter.com.