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Fair enough if you've some development environment automation and you want the CI to run it as well so CI is consistent with local development.

Don't know exactly what your doing but others(myself included) are using Mise or Nix on a per project basis to automate the development environment setup and that works well on GitHub Actions.

But I don't think useradd taking 30's on GitHub Actions is a bug or something they need to fix, they've explained why. Unsure about the sudo issues, did not read it carefully.

The problem is some stuff is a real pain to test with static assertions. Such as I was saying about compilers. It would be a real pain to maintain an expected AST in a unit test, then you'd have to go rework it all if you change the shape and or add/remove nodes etc.

You can mix the approaches, have some static assertions(as sanity checks) but make most snapshot tests. Like I said I wouldn't use snapshot testing for a fibonacci method, but there are problems out there that are a real pain to test via static assertions.

I mean...

They told you why it takes so long no? the runners come by default with loads of programming languages installed like Rust, Haskell, Node, Python, .Net etc so it sets all that up per user add.

I would also question why your adding users on an ephemeral runner.

cringe

Ansible is CaC(Config as Code) not IaC(Infrastructure as Code) they're for different things.

This is what I done, GitHub Actions is basically a command line as a service for my projects. It does nothing but checkout the code, means I can do all the releasing, artefact uploading, compiling & testing etc locally.

I mean all CIs work out of the box, although I have no interest in self hosting CI.

Jenkins is probably a bit like Java, technically it is fine. The problem is really where/who typically uses it and as there is so much freedom it is really easy to make a monster. Where as for Go it is a lot harder to write terrible unmaintainable code compared to Java.

It is called snapshot testing, very valid technique. Maybe not best suited to a mathematical function like they have here, but I have found it useful for stuff like compilers asserting on the AST, where it would be a pain to write out and assert on the output and may also change shape.

Yes I am seeing what your saying, it can start of simple and people will choose the path of least resistance and you'll end up with a ball of mud eventually. Fortunately I have not come across anything that bad yet.

I know it is a made up example, but I am not sure Python would improve the situation. I would be looking at either Docker or SBOMs to try and improve the situation and then hopefully the release process would become a lot simpler.

Java has numerous problems, it's not as simple as use Java not Rust. To be honest I actively avoid any tooling written in Java.

Jobs run in parallel, so if you used Make you could have one job called 'formatting' calling 'make check-formatting', one called linting calling ''make check-linting', one called 'compiling' calling 'make compile' etc.

I use to have my Makefile call out and do `docker build ...` and `docker run ...` etc with a volume mount of the source code to manage and maintain tooling versions etc.

It works okay, better than a lot of other workflows I have seen. But it is a bit slow, a bit cumbersome(for langs like Go or Node.js that want to write to HOME) and I had some issues on my ARM Macbook about no ARM images etc.

I would recommend taking a look at Nix, it is what I switched to.

* It is faster. * Has access to more tools. * Works on ARM, X86 etc.

> However it’s really easy to go from a simple shell script running a few commands to something significantly more complex just to do something seemingly simple, like parse a semantic version, make an api call and check the status code etc, etc.

Maybe I keep making the wrong assumption that everyone is using the same tools the same way and thats why my opinions seem very strong. But I wouldn't even think of trying to "parse a semantic version" in shell, I am treating the shell scripts and task runners as plumbing, I would be handing that of a dedicated tool to action.

I had no idea 'pwsh' was PowerShell. Personally not interested, maybe if your a Microsoft shop or something then yeah.