I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Merely I found it subpar technology to other emerging at the time (like Ruby on Rails or Django). And yet I hate GitHub Actions. With Passion2. Road to Hell Day before writing these words I was implementing build.rs for my tmplr project. To save you a click - it is a file/project scaffold tool with human readable (and craftable) template files. I (personally) use it very often, given how easy it is to craft new templates, by hand or with aid of the tool, so check it out if you need a similar tool.

I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Merely I found it subpar technology to other emerging at the time (like Ruby on Rails or Django). And yet I hate GitHub Actions.
With Passion2.

Road to Hell
Day before writing these words I was implementing build.rs for my tmplr project. To save you a click - it is a file/project scaffold tool with human readable (and craftable) template files. I (personally) use it very often, given how easy it is to craft new templates, by hand or with aid of the tool, so check it out if you need a similar tool.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    252·
    9 days ago

    the whole loop still took around 2-3 minutes to execute.

    FOR. A. SINGLE. CHANGE.

    Yes. For a single change. Like having an editor with 2 minute save lag,

    Damn you’re running a whole production pipeline and it only takes two minutes? That’s pretty good. I’ve worked with projects that take tens of minutes, if not hours, just to compile.

    Now if I was running some dinky little solo dev project, I’d probably just use some system-local CI thing for rapid iteration, if my changes needed to go through CI at all. Maybe Jenkins if I was feeling fancy. But a big project with a bunch of users on a remote platform? Getting a result in just 2-3 minutes is awesome.

    • setsubyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Damn you’re running a whole production pipeline and it only takes two minutes? That’s pretty good. I’ve worked with projects that take tens of minutes, if not hours, just to compile.

      At work we have CI runs that take almost a week. On fairly powerful systems too. Multiple decades of a “no change without a test case” policy in a large project combined with instrumented debug builds…

      Tbf we don’t run those on every single change though. The per change ones take a couple hours only.