What are the good local emulators for gh actions? The #1 reason we don’t use them is because the development loop is appallingly slow.

nektos/act was considered good enough to be adopted as the CI solution for Gitea and Forgejo. The latter uses it for all their development, seems to work out fine for them.

I've never been a fan of GitHub Actions (too locked-in/proprietary for my taste), so no idea if it lives up to expectations.

none of them are good ime, stopped using actions for the same reason