https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/blob/master/docs/spindl...
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Blog post about Tangled's CI: https://blog.tangled.org/ci
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There looks to be a blog post here: https://blog.tangled.org/ci
I'm not a fan of nix and would have picked containers regardless for a git forge CI offering
Like Argo or Jenkins. Pushing nix as the DX for GHA equivalent was a poor choice by Tangled IMO. It's too unusual for your average dev, I'm not interested in learning nix so I can use CI.
Yeah, I think it makes sense to also let people point to arbitrary OCI registries. I'd bet support for that is coming, especially since the execution environment is Dockerized anyway.
> Pushing nix as the DX for GHA equivalent
I think something like Nix actually makes more sense than YAML for this kind of thing. You want a DSL that is purpose-built so that configurations are declarative, simple configurations are simple to write, and configurations are composable. YAML is too much of a straightjacket. Some kind of built-in support for deep merges is a must, imo.
How powerful/expressive the language should be is debatable, I think. I'm interested in Turing-complete DSLs like Nix and Nickel, but CUE could be a good fit here, too.
Anyway I'm sure they'll add first-class support for using some OCI artifact to define a CI environment. Looks like their CI implementation only recently entered the first alpha.
> Also Nix supports MacOS.
Doesn't matter. Tangled CI requires Docker.