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Re:Non-Obvious Docker Uses by TameAntelope on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:58PM (#32218655)
You can argue or disagree all day long about what OS is best for development, but it's not reasonable to think that developers on MacOS would only write code for MacOS servers.

You can very successfully write code that runs on Linux on either MacOS or Windows, depending on what you're developing.

Probably not a big deal, but just seems pointlessly narrow to think all developers would or should prefer actually developing on Linux exclusively.

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Re:Non-Obvious Docker Uses by bigiain on Sunday July 24, 2022 @08:10PM (#32219142)
I got frustrated enough with Docker on macOS that I now have an Intel NUC to use as my "local development". I still use my Mac for development (and all the tools I'm familiar with and do not want to learn replacements for) while also having "fast" Docker on my desk (and even when I'm not at my desk, Docker-on-Linux over VPN annoys me less that Docker on macOS).

Feels kinda wasteful sometimes to have all this compute horsepower in my MacBook, and then offload a bunch of the workload to a few hundred bucks worth of external hardware, but I reckon it'd saved my boss the entire cost of the NUC in the first week or two.

Not the right answer for everyone, but it works for me.

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Re:Non-Obvious Docker Uses by LilBytes on Monday July 25, 2022 @12:20AM (#32220460)
It's really not that bad of an idea for anyone, I can only speak for VSCode but what you're talking about isn't a huge gap from WSL2.

Except rather than using WSL2 for your local remote (confused yet? I am) sessions.

Hardware _is_ cheap, if MacOS can't support a decent enough environment for Docker, provide your Engineers with some cheap hardware like a NUC or even a remote AWS Linux EC2 instance or similar and get a native *nix environment that way.

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Re:Non-Obvious Docker Uses by Spooky23 on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:03AM (#32220666)
You can but it’s easy to get your environment messed up with python.

Personally I’m a fan of buying a fancier Mac and running a VM that resembles production somewhat. I was using VMWare Fusion and now UTM. Works great for me by minimizing Homebrew drama.

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