Ask HN: Devs, Workflow engine with DSL or programming language?

1 points by as90 3 years ago | 2 comments

Which one do you prefer?

If you're gonna use some third party service (either closed hosted, or self hosted) to build application logic workflows, what will be your preference? To write the workflow in their DSL spec and decoupled from your source code?, or will you be more interested if you can run your own native code as workflows?

turtleyacht 3 years ago |

> write the workflow in their DSL spec

With Github Actions (for example), the workflow in their DSL "spec" is in our source control as .yml files, though.

> you can run your own native code as workflows

Github Actions lets you specify `docker run`, so we could execute "(y)our own native code."

> decoupled from your source code

Given the above, could you elaborate on this?

as90 3 years ago |

I think nobody understood the question, lol