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Thank you for the extensive reply! The first part you mentioned is exactly what we were missing back then, we wanted to dynamically generate workflows starting from a configuration selected by the user. This wasn't really possible unless we would generate the YAML openflow specification ourselves. At the end we gave up and rolled our own simple tool that just does what little we need. This said, it is cool that you are considering offering a more code-friendly way to define workflows. I still think this doesn't offer the same level of dynamism of dragster, where you could easily design branching/conditional workflows. I suppose your considerations regarding the decorators/compilers go exactly in that direction



Yes it goes in that direction, however note that you can already do this in a not too hard way.

Our openflow spec is both open-source and has a full openapi definition: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/openflow...

you can use that to generate client sdks in any languages and build your own dag with it. That's what one of our customer did building a reactflow to openflow library: https://github.com/Devessier/reactflow-to-windmill

It's not as good as the decorator way but we move fast and if you still have interest for it we could prioritize it (and ask for feedbacks :))




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