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Re:Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruine... by CafeRacer on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @09:48AM (#46135106)
Well then why 99% of GH Actions functionality even exists.
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Re:Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruine... by esafak on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:10AM (#46135373)
To lock you in.
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Re:Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruine... by CafeRacer on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:24AM (#46135545)
Ergo, I'd rather use brainfuck to program CI.
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Re:Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruine... by sunnyday_002 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:29PM (#46138854)
It is fairly common pratice almost engineering best pratice to not put logic in CI. Just have it call out to a task runner, so you can run the same command locally for debugging etc. Think of CI more as a shell as a service, your just paying someone to enter some shell commands for you, you should be able to do exactly the same locally.

You can take this a setup furthur and use an environment manager to removing the installing of tools from CI as well for local/remote consistency and more benefits.

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