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`Wasp` Drops Its Custom DSL After 5 Years and $5M
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`Wasp` Drops Its Custom DSL After 5 Years and $5M

A Rails/Laravel-style web framework is moving from its own DSL to TypeScript. The lesson is blunt: language design can bury product momentum.

[ KEY POINTS ]
  1. Wasp tried a declarative app-spec language on top of React, Node.js, and Prisma; that abstraction became too costly to keep.
  2. The team spent 5 years and $5M before abandoning the custom language path. Platform bets compound slowly, then painfully.
  3. Moving to TypeScript reduces adoption friction. Familiar tooling often beats elegant syntax when distribution matters.
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