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by ibern 2401 days ago
Right now I'd say it's in competition with Workflow Description Language (WDL), Nextflow, and maybe Snakemake.

CWL seems to be more popular than WDL, as far as I can tell, but Nextflow is probably more popular than both.

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Skimming the WDL “Quick Start Guide” (https://software.broadinstitute.org/wdl/documentation/quicks...) to get an overview, it’s like watching a snake eat its tail. You’d think a narrative in this problem space would at least have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

At least the Nextwave homepage (https://www.nextflow.io/) starts with a clean concrete written example, even if it does leave you to deduce its actual meaning for yourself.