I Hate Github Actions with Passion
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 PHP4, 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 Passion.
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.
The build.rs used CUE to generate README.md , CHANGELOG.md and also a version/help file to guarantee consistency. It was fun thing to do, it took approx. 1.5h and I even wrote an article about it. For myself and future generations.
I was happy with the results and didn’t check CI output which, quite unsurprisingly, failed. I was using cue binary inside build.rs and without it build simply couldn’t progress. When I woke up next day and saw e-mail from CI notifying me about failed build I immediatelly knew my day isn’t going to start with puppies and rainbows.
It took couple attempts to search and push GitHub Action that would install CUE and then I got the worst of the worst results: One system in matrix failing to build.
A word of explanation. I’m building tmplr for 4 platforms:
Linux ARM
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