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What's wrong with local runners like nektos/act?

I haven't used personally but curious if it has some shortcomings they don't mention.

They are not 1:1 parity with the hosted version, they are hard to run, and they are slow. When I tried GA I often had to just test on the hosted service, and debugging on the hosted service is so slow and painful. I honestly am very surprised that GA is so popular, it's probably the worst CI I've used and I thought I was missing something.

That's surprising.

GA workflows are basically yaml lists of docker container names to run. I thought it would've been trivial to emulate. At least much easier than any other system.

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