I couldn’t agree more. I think we should just write our pipelines in languages our teams are familiar with and prioritise being able to run them locally.

> prioritise being able to run them locally.

That is the key function any serious CI platform needs to tackle to get me interested. FORCE me to write something that can run locally. I'll accept using containers, or maybe even VMs, but make sure that whatever I build for your server ALSO runs on my machine.

I absolutely detest working on GitHub Actions because all too often it ends up requiring that I create a new repo where I can commit to master (because for some reason everybody loves writing actions that only work on master). Which means I have to move all the fucking secrets too.

Solve that for me PLEASE. Don't give me more YAML features.