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I don't think it was particularly difficult to use... the multi-os targets are probably about the most confusing.

I tend to stick with bare scripts and npm scripts as much as possible though, so the environment doesn't matter as much.

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The YAML configuration is something I have to learn that provides no value-add outside of GitHub. If it was at least based on Docker, you could re-use existing technical knowledge or teach people something that's valuable in other contexts.

A lot of things use YAML for configuration... what would you prefer for configuration? XML?

I want to write a Dockerfile. I don't particularly have an issue with YAML.

then why not write a dockerfile, and have your yaml, just do the docker build... command?

HCL, which is what GitHub Actions used when it first launched

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