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by GauntletWizard 89 days ago
Because the true name of the feature is VisualSourceSafe actions. It's all over the code of the runner if you take a second to look, and the runner, like the rest of the feature, is of typical early 2000s Microsoft quality, which is to say, none at all.
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Yep, once you start looking into the inner workings, you realize it's just a rebranded Azure Pipelines with a ton of technical debt attached.
GitHub Actions, the feature that was years in the making, and launched in August 2018. Which Microsoft then acquired 2 months later.