[eiro]

it really feels like a sophisticated bad joke to me but i'm curious: any real world example ?

[Xophmeister]

We've used it and competing workflow management "languages" -- there are a few of them -- in our bioinformatic processing pipelines. "Sophisticated bad joke" is a pretty accurate description.

[hhas01]

Disappointing, but unsurprising.

See also: Greenspun’s Tenth Rule, “Yo Dawg…”.

[jkh1]

It's used in bioinformatics. for example by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health[0].

You can find some CWL workflows on dockstore [1].

[0] https://www.ga4gh.org/ [1] https://dockstore.org/search?descriptorType=CWL&searchMode=f...

[tetron]

https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Acwl+cwlVersion