# Toolchain Complexity

> The degree to which building custom languages adds compilers, parsers, and editors to a project's toolchain.

Record: `lexicon:toolchain-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-toolchain-complexity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [One-Size General-Purpose Code](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/one-size-general-purpose-code.md) and before [Formal Model](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/formal-model.md).

## Category

- [Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/metaprogramming-language-oriented-architecture.md)

## In tension with

- [Language-Oriented Programming](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/language-oriented-programming.md)
- [Language-Oriented Programming / Toolchain Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/language-oriented-programming-toolchain-complexity.md)

## Linked from

- [Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metaprogramming-language-oriented-architecture.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)