[chenxiaolong]

For me, I begrudgingly use GitHub for my personal projects because GitHub Actions is free. If I move elsewhere, I'll have to stop providing precompiled binaries for OS's that I can't cross-compile for from Linux (eg. macOS).

[zzo38computer]

I would not provide precompiled binaries for other systems if I could not even test it properly (nor know all of the details for programming for those other systems), whether or not it uses GitHub Actions.

If you do use GitHub Actions for compiling, then it might be better for the actual implementation of compiling to be in a separate file (which can also be used outside of GitHub) and the GitHub Actions file will only specify the conditions to trigger that separate file.

(I do use GitHub Actions, but only to automatically assign issues to myself (which is not something that is necessary in order to work the software that is being made by your repository). If it is moved to (or copied or mirrored to) something else that cannot use GitHub Actions files, it might have another way to auto-assign issues or make it unnecessary to do s.)

[chenxiaolong]

Yeah, my GitHub Actions workflows don't do much more than `cargo build --release && cargo test --release`. I don't use any of the fancy features that would lock me in.

It's really just running the tests on Mac that I rely on it for. For Windows and Android, I can (and regularly do) use wine and qemu-user-static to run the tests on Linux. My project (a computationally heavy CLI tool) is simple though. It doesn't need much from the OS besides memory allocation, thread spawning, and opening a user-specified file.

[xigoi]

SourceHut builds are not free, but cheap if you’re an “amateur hacker” ($2/month).