temporalmodern

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Temporal Go API Modernization

Ideas for newer workflow API. Rules for each approach:

• Must have generic types for workflows, activities, signals, and queries
• Must make invoking and returning all of the above respect their types
• Must make workflow and activity registering obey types
• Can force single-arg and/or single-return functions as needed
• Do not have to implement yet, just have to demonstrate compile-time safety
• Examples must show a workflow that can be queried, waits for a signal, then executes an activity and returns

See the approaches below. The links are to the examples which each list their approaches and pros/cons within.

• temporalng1
• temporalng2
• temporalng3
• temporalng4

Notes:

• There are many even crazier ideas that were not included due to impracticality
• Activity and workflow definitions could define their own default options
  • Just sucks for the untyped users
• Could offer code gen, but that sucks for users
• Some of the ideas here can be mixed and matched