Comment by bob1029

5 days ago

I've been able to effectively skip the entire CI/CD conversation by preferring modern .NET and SQLite.

I recently spent a day trying to get a GH Actions build going but got frustrated and just wrote my own console app to do it. Polling git, tracking a commit hash and running dotnet build is not rocket science. Putting this agent on the actual deployment target skips about 3 boss fights.

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arunix  4 days ago

Is there something about .NET that makes this easier?

  • jiggawatts  3 days ago

    It's like Java in that it tends towards the "build once, run anywhere" style.

    Also, Windows has a consistent user-mode API surface (unlike Linux), so a .NET app that runs on a desktop will run on server almost always.

    The same cannot be said for someone developing on a "UNIX-like" system such a MacOS and then trying to run it on Ubuntu... or RedHat. Alpine? Shit...