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In this episode of the Channels podcast, it’s all about developer experience! Ben Sherman takes us through new and upcoming language improvements in the Nextflow language which will help people writing Nextflow pipelines write code faster, with fewer errors, and of course with beautifully formatted indentation 🤩
We cover:
What exactly was happening in the last episode, when Marcel, Chris and Phil ran wild with a beta version of breakpoint debugging in IntelliJ IDEA.
Why informative error messages are difficult in Nextflow, and how we’re making things better (coming to your console in the next stable release!)
How we’re building a Nextflow language server, for linting, formatting and code completion in your favourite IDE.
In episode 47 of The Nextflow Podcast, Phil Ewels and Ben Sherman discuss the launch of the new Nextflow language server, a significant upgrade providing advanced code intelligence features such as code completion and error hints for VS Code users.
They detail the benefits of formalizing...
Published 11/05/24
In this episode of Channels, the Nextflow podcast, host Geraldine from Seqera and her colleague Ben Sherman dive into the differences and similarities between Nextflow and the Workflow Description Language (WDL). They discuss the origins and development of WDL at the Broad Institute, the...
Published 09/17/24