On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 22:00:11 UTC, kinke wrote:
Seems like a tighter integration of Azure Pipelines (somewhat adapted) into GitHub, an obvious move by Microsoft to foster their position. So Windows/Linux/macOS on x86_64 (Azure) hosts, max. 6 hours runtime per job, max 20 jobs in parallel (Azure: 10).
Cleaned up workflow yml syntax and typescript API stand out as a major improvement for me compared to old Azure. Also streamlined docker integration. There is much less boilerplate involved overall.
And it is worth mentioning that even before that Azure was among the best available CI options if you need to test a project on all 3 major OS, I can't remember any other free CI out of my head which provides windows/linux/macos runners without having to maintain separate test scripts for those.
So essentially Github Actions takes existing top CI offer and makes it easier to use.
