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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
I totally agree, and I’ve seen some completely nuts GH actions setups already where people seem to want to use every single possible action. What happens when the charging model no longer suits you? I’ve done self hosted Jenkins -> TravisCI -> CircleCI -> Self hosted GitLab on one of my projects in the past few years… I want to do as little CI provider specific stuff as possible.

>>physic+z71
For CI specifically, you should IMO check out https://dagger.io. It abstracts and generalizes CI in exactly the way you need: repeatable, locally runnable, and also cacheable on remote servers. Write once, run anywhere CI - what you have locally will be _exactly_ what runs remotely.