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Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers by mhio on Friday August 26, 2022 @05:12AM (#32604934)
> Of course we could use Docker, but then on Mac our dev process would be 3x slower

Out of interest, what in your dev process makes using containers so impactful?

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Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers by TheCapeGreek on Friday August 26, 2022 @06:05AM (#32605354)
Docker on Mac and Windows runs in a VM, not natively.
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Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers by mhio on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:24AM (#32646622)
3x slower is not regular VM overhead range.

Using the dodgy file share volume mounting, maybe for particular file access patterns.

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Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers by lozenge on Friday August 26, 2022 @06:36AM (#32605571)
They probably want their source code on their "real" filesystem which makes Docker painfully slow.
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