Robot Framework: generic open source automation framework
I am less than lukewarm on those sort of "Natural-Language-Like" DSLs that seem to mostly come out of the QA space.When I worked together with a QA team for automated testing, they used Cucumber, which uses Gherkin as an english-but-not-really DSL. Now the idea is obviously, that someone who doesn't know how to code can still describe and read test scenarios. But what ended up happening eventually is that I spent a lot of time writing code to support different Gherkin expressions, but then had to take over writing the Gherkin expressions as well, because even though Gherkin -looks- like english, it still behaves like a programming language. In the end, it would've been much easier for me to just write the tests in a programming language from the start, instead of using an abstraction layer that turned out to serve no purpose.What I took away from that frustrating experience is that a lot of people think that learning to code is learning a syntax of a programming language, and if you could just do away with that pesky syntax, everybody could code. But, obviously, the syntax ist just the initial barrier, and actually coding is crystallizing and formulating intent - something which programming languages are much better at than natural languages.But for some reason, this low/no-code idea never seems to die down, especially in some spaces, and I have the feeling I'm just missing something here.