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Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers by throwaway892238 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:25PM (#32602255)
Overlay copy-on-write filesystems are slow. I think most container runtimes use them.
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Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers by baq on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:13AM (#32605853)
compared to full-VMs-pretending-to-be-containers everything is fast.

it seems like everybody here is using Macs for development to the point that if you don't say you aren't, you are assumed to be on a mac. Windows with WSL2 is actually pleasant to use, I can recommend trying it out. while WSL2 is a VM technically, the level of integration makes it basically native (if you use the VM disk for your workspace, which you should.)

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Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers by justinsaccount on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:24AM (#32607173)
> if you use the VM disk for your workspace, which you should.

Yep, if you try to build something that is stored on /mnt/c you'll have the same horrible performance.

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Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers by justinsaccount on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:23AM (#32607164)
It's not the COW filesystem that is slow, it's bind mounting the host filesystem into the VM. This ends up using something like 9p or sshfs.
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