windmill-labs/windmill is an open source developer platform that turns scripts into webhooks (connections that pass events to other services), workflows, and UIs to automate infrastructure and internal tools. The latest release in the repository record is v1.842.0, and the primary language is Rust. However, what was added or changed in this version is not described in the provided material.
The README describes Windmill as a developer platform for APIs, background jobs, workflows, and UIs. It automatically creates shareable UIs from scripts, chains scripts together into flows, and builds complex apps in a low-code (a way of writing less code) manner. Its center of gravity is connecting and managing code work as schedule, event, and workflow steps, and for self-hosting it provides Docker Compose and Kubernetes (Helm charts) deployment methods. The repository description foregrounds the claim of a workflow engine 13 times faster than Airflow, and the fact that it is an open source replacement for Retool and Temporal. This repository, written in Rust, was created on May 5, 2022, and has 18,232 stars.
Still, the verifiable scope is narrow. The performance comparison is presented only by the repository's own description, and there is no independent measurement data. The license is recorded as NOASSERTION, so the terms of use cannot be confirmed. No novelty, technology, or quality scores were given, and the momentum score in the research record is 3.8 out of 10. There is also no material showing adoption cases or operating costs. It can be viewed as a candidate for teams that need a script-centric automation tool, but its performance edge and license terms are difficult to judge from this material alone.