GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool [video]

Post by thinkingkong » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 7:50 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #39

I'd be hesitant to build on GitHub tools that have overlap with anything Microsoft provides. When something similar is introduced to Azure, why keep the subsidiary's internal competition around? This happened already with VS Code vs. Github's Atom editor whose development has ceased earlier this year. (Not that I ever was a huge fan of Atom, but its discontinuation is a direct result of the Microsoft acquisition.)

Post by toyg » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 8:04 PM UTC

jpxw wrote: post #36

ComputerGuru wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am with you on this. It seems to be a new trend: “show users how to do a hello world” which was disregarded in the past... but somehow that turned into “instead of providing real documentation” rather than “in addition to.” It’s not just GitHub. There’s a language I (and the rest of HN) love that has adopted “story format” for documentation but is missing real, hard technical documentation apart from method-level c…

I assume you’re talking about Go here?

Post by weberc2 » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 8:07 PM UTC

jpxw wrote: post #36

ComputerGuru wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am with you on this. It seems to be a new trend: “show users how to do a hello world” which was disregarded in the past... but somehow that turned into “instead of providing real documentation” rather than “in addition to.” It’s not just GitHub. There’s a language I (and the rest of HN) love that has adopted “story format” for documentation but is missing real, hard technical documentation apart from method-level c…

I assume you’re talking about Go here?

Post by Wowfunhappy » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 8:10 PM UTC

ReidZB wrote: post #37

ComputerGuru wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am with you on this. It seems to be a new trend: “show users how to do a hello world” which was disregarded in the past... but somehow that turned into “instead of providing real documentation” rather than “in addition to.” It’s not just GitHub. There’s a language I (and the rest of HN) love that has adopted “story format” for documentation but is missing real, hard technical documentation apart from method-level c…

I read an article[0] on HN[1] recently — it talks about the different types of documentation. To quote it directly: "Documentation needs to include and be structured around its four different functions: tutorials, how-to guides, explanation and technical reference. Each of them requires a distinct mode of writing. People working with software need these four different kinds of documentation at different times, in dif…

Post by krick » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 8:17 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #20

ccleve wrote: post #13

I have spent the last two days fighting with these new Github tools. I've been trying to do a simple Hello-World Maven app, built on Github Actions and deployed to Github Packages. It does not work. Github documentation is a disaster. They leave out critical parts. They don't provide examples. Everything they write is terse, confusing, and incomplete. They have short little articles on how to do things, and for each…

I am with you on this. It seems to be a new trend: “show users how to do a hello world” which was disregarded in the past... but somehow that turned into “instead of providing real documentation” rather than “in addition to.” It’s not just GitHub. There’s a language I (and the rest of HN) love that has adopted “story format” for documentation but is missing real, hard technical documentation apart from method-level c…