Jira Is Turing-Complete (And You've Been Coding in It) (opens in new tab)

You didn't realize it, but the last time you built a Jira workflow, you wrote a program. A bad one, probably — no version control, no tests, no linter — but a program nonetheless. The Uncomfortable Truth About Jira Jira started as a bug tracker. A humble list of things that were broken, assigned to people who would fix them. That was 2002. Fast-forward to today and Jira is a sprawling automation engine with conditional branching, state machines, persistent storage, and event-driven triggers. ...