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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by MuffinFlavored on Friday September 22, 2023 @09:40PM (#37619894)
> our workflow ends up being about 50-60 lines as a result and very rarely needs to be changed once you've set up.

As in, use GitHub Actions as a YAML wrapper around bash/zsh/sh scripts?

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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by flohofwoe on Saturday September 23, 2023 @06:02AM (#37621923)
It can be any scripting language, Python or Typescript via Deno are good choices because they have batteries-included cross-platform standard libs and are trivial to setup.

Python is actually preinstalled on Github CI runners.

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