Hi, At my workplace, we're long-time Airflow user...
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Hi, At my workplace, we're long-time Airflow users. After skimming through Prefect docs and blogs, I can see that it tackles many of Airflow's pain-points that we've had to hack our way around. But an advantage Airflow provides is the ability to run tasks written in non-Python programming languages, such as R, via operators (Bashoperator, Dockeroperator). Is it possible to do so in Prefect? If yes, how? If not, is it in the roadmap? Congrats and thanks for open-sourcing Prefect core! Slack Conversation
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Hi @Akash, Prefect supports all the same operation modes as Airflow. Check out the [shell tasks](https://docs.prefect.io/api/unreleased/tasks/shell.html) and [docker tasks](https://docs.prefect.io/api/unreleased/tasks/docker.html) for more detail. We also support launching Kubernetes jobs. This will be further expanded for ease of use in the next release.
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