Snakemake with julia (and similarities with Dr Watson or..)

[abraemer]

Funnily enough there was a post 2h before this thread about basically the same topic by @jonathanBieler

Dagger + Dates = snakemake?

I have a folder data with samples (csv files), I want to compute some statistics for each file and then make a summary. In snakemake you can define rules how to produce the output file from the inputs, and snakemake will handle the execution, running things only when needed (e.g. when a file has been modified). There’s not equivalent in Julia, but I think all most of the building blocks are already in Dagger and we just need some nicer frontend. Here’s an example I made quickly to illustrate: I…