CppCon 2018

Ever thinking of creating your own specific-purpose programming language? Or maybe improving programming experience by adding a language feature in existing language? This talk presents about Embedded Domain-Specific Language (EDSL) from basic concepts and technique to build it using C++.

EDSL is a powerful technique in integrating a custom libraries or frameworks in users’ codes. EDSL can improve user’s experience in using libraries by reducing boilerplate codes and providing more readable and straightforward codes. Some success stories are: Boost.Spirit, Boost.Proto.

Although Boost.Proto provides tool to build EDSL in C++, this talk presents building EDSL from the ground up utilizing operator overloading, template metaprogramming, and macro. We use operator overloading and template metaprogramming to build a simple expression tree for our EDSL.

This talk provides an example of developing an “asynchronous block” within C++ codes to be used in Tizen native application development. The “asynchronous block” has similar purpose with C++11 std::async but targeting a different API and mimicking the structure of try-catch block.