Comment by Mark on "What's one of the most frustrating moments you've had as a developer?"

Setting up build tools always sucks copious amounts of ass.

I tend to explore new languages, and I tend to start a lot of projects that I abandon at 20%. This means I spend a spend a lot of time trying to set everything up so that builds work on all the platforms, tests and lints run, deployments, etc.

And its the worst! So many different build tools and module systems etc, and so many of them are the worst. More than once I've just been like "fuck this, I shouldn't have to read a book to target two platforms - I'm making a .sh file in 15 min that just does all the steps".

Sounds like me when I try to figure out GitLabs poorly documented CI/CD that just fails every single time. No idea why they can't make default setups for common frameworks.

It's just a lot easier to run those tasks locally then instead of wasting days on their system.

Emil Moe +1 for Gitlab CI probs. Setting up their system takes lots than setting up our app.

Girish Patil I have even consulted other people and they had to give up. For most users it could be a simple point and click setup or, as in my case, a Laravel default template which a fair amount of their customers must use.

Have been a big fan of GitLab CI/CD. Recently switched everything to Buddy.works (for back-end) and Netlify (for front-end)

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