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Re:Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs i... by icyfox on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:02PM (#50399677)
MIT licensed, just clarified in the repo.

As for async - background jobs are better modeled as async because of their natural parallelism across nodes imo. Logic in actions themselves are free to be as synchronous as you want. Why the preference?

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Re:Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs i... by dangistan202611 on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:11PM (#50399785)
I dispute the "better" assertion. Anyhow, I don't know how familiar or not you are with sync code, but it fully supports background jobs using queues with threads/interpreters/processes. It has been around for decades. If you can willingly disregard support for it, I can willingly disregard your repo.
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