I've tried to get `act` to work several times over the past few months, and never managed to get even a basic workflow to run locally. It kept giving cryptic errors that I had to dig into their code to figure out (e.g. requiring a GitHub Personal Access Token despite not mentioning it in the docs). It gave me the impression that it was far from functional, for now.

I eventually gave up and have been running Actions on GitHub from a branch, merging into the main one once it works.

How come Github doesn't have this? Just lemme run it locally. I've wasted so much time debugging my workflows... It's such a obvious miss.

Amazing that somebody developed that for Microsoft.

they probably developed it for themselves.