alt Hacker NewsNormally I’d say stop kicking the dead horse, but GHA deserves all the complaints it gets and then some. It’s the embodiment of everything that’s bad in ‘less is more’.
My biggest concern with it is that it’s somehow the de facto industry standard. You could do so much better with relatively small investments, but MS went full IE6 with it… and now there’s a whole generation of young engineers who don’t know how short their end of the stick actually is since they never get to compare it to anything.
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> there’s a whole generation of young engineers who don’t know how short their end of the stick actually is
I'm from a generation who had to use VSS for a few years. The sticks are pretty long these days, even the ones you get from github.
I'm accustomed to just doing as much as possible locally. GHA doesn't even seem like a value-add over that for me.
It's funny that absolutely everything about GHA fucking sucks, and everyone agrees about this. BUT, the fact that it's free compute, and it's "right there"... means it's very very difficult to say no to!
Personally I've just retired a laptop and I'm planning to turn it into a little home server. I think I'm gonna try spinning up Woodpecker on there, I'm curious to see what a CI system people don't hate is like to live with!