It's obviously doable, but it's very heavy for languages. Like someone else said, you immediately run into basic issues like readline, LSP compatibility, volume persistence, port forwarding, etc.

Docker is better for version managing services like databases, caches (Postgres, Redis, etc), things that have little need for different configuration or exploration and persist through multiple sessions. Once they're up, they're done.

Asdf is the next best thing for local development, where you need that kind of exploration.