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The single thing that I most detest about GitHub Actions is how they, by design, completely miss the point of containers. Having "actions" that are just "instal
by ris 3y ago
The single thing that I most detest about GitHub Actions is how they, by design, completely miss the point of containers. Having "actions" that are just "install language foo" is barely better than just publishing shell scripts or even the days of Travis.
As a result, few GitHub workflows benefit from the immutability or reproducibility guarantees that can be provided by containers, and most workflows I interact with spend more than half their time running ridiculous installer scripts.
- brabel 3y agoAre you unaware that GH Actions can run jobs in containers?? https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/running-jobs-in-a-container https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/running-jobs-i...