I tried to use the Podman and Podman-compose stack for a large develop docker environment I run locally.

The individual containers build alright, but running the compose with Podman-Compose failed miserably with unhelpful output - just a bunch of Python stack traces. Running it with Docker-Compose just worked.

I think that Docker-Compose is just a lot more lenient with Yaml type errors - where things should and shouldn't be surrounded in quotes. Podman-Compose just needs to be a little more forgiving, and continuing to parse the compose files if the semantics can be assumed, even if the syntax is not perfect.