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I might love this. Last time I checked on the Actions docs, they seemed to say a lot, while still leaving me confused somehow.

jonny_eh 5y ago
> they seemed to say a lot, while still leaving me confused somehow Saying a lot and causing confusion usually go hand-in-hand.
- nefitty 5y ago
  Actions was my first experience with YAML and it made me want to bark at my monitor. No, I'm not a dog.
  - phalangion 5y ago
    We can’t know that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
  - naikrovek 5y ago
    JSON is valid YAML.
  - thunkshift1 5y ago
    How to learn the YAML syntax? Its frustrating.. are there any autocomplete tools
mrbuzzinfrog 5y ago
It's pretty terrible if you compare it to CircleCI or GitLab from 4 years ago. I'm a big fan of GitLab, seems like the only company pushing things forward in an _elegant matter_, used it heavily in the startup world. Using GitHub again these days. I cry every time I need to do GHA stuff. Current setup of Github + CircleCI is miles more elegant as it was 6 years ago.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  I like gitlab, but I'm not sure elegant is the word I'd use for them; they have a severe case of wanting to check all the boxes for features, but it can be a little clunky to see how the parts work together. My pick for elegance would be sourcehut. On the other hand, they all seem to work pretty decently and the clunkiness isn't that bad, so I keep using it:)
- jpthurman 5y ago
  This makes sense - the main reason GitLab took off is vertical integration with CI/CD which Github is catching up on. Github has the long game in mind and with it's size and preponderance of OSS I see it taking over when they innovate to a more useable level.
  - naikrovek 5y ago
    well, look at Azure DevOps. Everything it does is coming to GitHub, and AZDO will eventually be sunset in favor of GitHub. And AZDO is quite good, imo. MS moved a lot of (almost all) Azure DevOps people and put them on GitHub.

jonny_eh 5y ago

> they seemed to say a lot, while still leaving me confused somehow Saying a lot and causing confusion usually go hand-in-hand.

nefitty 5y ago
Actions was my first experience with YAML and it made me want to bark at my monitor. No, I'm not a dog.
- phalangion 5y ago
  We can’t know that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
- naikrovek 5y ago
  JSON is valid YAML.
- thunkshift1 5y ago
  How to learn the YAML syntax? Its frustrating.. are there any autocomplete tools

mrbuzzinfrog 5y ago

It's pretty terrible if you compare it to CircleCI or GitLab from 4 years ago. I'm a big fan of GitLab, seems like the only company pushing things forward in an _elegant matter_, used it heavily in the startup world. Using GitHub again these days. I cry every time I need to do GHA stuff. Current setup of Github + CircleCI is miles more elegant as it was 6 years ago.

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
I like gitlab, but I'm not sure elegant is the word I'd use for them; they have a severe case of wanting to check all the boxes for features, but it can be a little clunky to see how the parts work together. My pick for elegance would be sourcehut. On the other hand, they all seem to work pretty decently and the clunkiness isn't that bad, so I keep using it:)
jpthurman 5y ago
This makes sense - the main reason GitLab took off is vertical integration with CI/CD which Github is catching up on. Github has the long game in mind and with it's size and preponderance of OSS I see it taking over when they innovate to a more useable level.
- naikrovek 5y ago
  well, look at Azure DevOps. Everything it does is coming to GitHub, and AZDO will eventually be sunset in favor of GitHub. And AZDO is quite good, imo. MS moved a lot of (almost all) Azure DevOps people and put them on GitHub.