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>>marius+(OP)
I just want to be able to write all my workflow code as typescript (including the config - no YAML, for the love of god, no more YAML!) and run it locally with a debugger attached.

It's cost me hundreds to thousands of dollars to implement nontrivial workflows because of how the YAML is parsed (for example, empty strings when using a secret that has been renamed or removed) and the lack of introspection or debuggability when something goes wrong.

It's gotten to the point where new any new workflows I write are thin wrappers around a single script and I don't import any actions besides actions/checkout (even that has been bug prone, historically).

All that said, it's not like other platforms are better. But they certainly are cheaper and don't have dumb breakages when you need cross platform builds (has upload-artifact been fixed for executables on MacOS yet?)

>>duped+Rl
Yea, making it so statements are composing via YAML was a very poor choice. One case I had was needing to change my actions so that steps D, E, and F could be retried together. What is the github YAML specification for decrementing a 'tries_remaining' variable, then going back to a previous step? I couldn't find it, so ended up just having to rewrite the action so that most of the steps are now in one bash script.

Not being able to execute it locally has also wasted a lot of time, and people needing to make 50+ changes to the master branch until they get it right.