# Dagster

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Dagster and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Dagster as an easy-to-use orchestrator for data workflows, citing its developer experience and suggesting it for orchestration problems.

## Why people recommend it

- Easy developer experience (1 comments): "I've used Dagster but I can't compare to airflow. But in terms of DX, I've found Dagster pretty easy to use." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014198))
- Recommended for workflow orchestration (2 comments): "It helps to use an orchestrator to handle all of this - my current recommendation is Dagster" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406744)) "Agree with other response, look at Dagster for this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017613))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Temporal](https://hackerapproved.com/p/temporal.md): 138 recommend
- [DBOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dbos.md): 39 recommend
- [Apache Airflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/airflow.md): 18 recommend
- [Restate](https://hackerapproved.com/p/restate.md): 16 recommend
- [Windmill](https://hackerapproved.com/p/windmill.md): 11 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Dagster", https://hackerapproved.com/p/dagster/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).