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Re:Development Containers by mshekow on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:27AM (#34515069)
containers.dev is a spec created and only implemented by Microsoft (in Visual Studio [Code]). Tool vendors (of IDEs) decided to go to war, instead of collaborating, it seems. XKCD's "standards" comic seems to apply [0] here.

As I've blogged about here [1], there are other specs such as Devfile.io or GitPod's proprietary gitpod.yml file.

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/

[1] https://www.augmentedmind.de/2022/10/30/container-based-deve...

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Re:Development Containers by asciimike on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:46AM (#34515194)
To be fair, GitPod claims they will support devcontainer.json: https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/7721
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Re:Development Containers by tiraz on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:37AM (#34515879)
Do they? It reads more like a request from the community, but without any statement from Gitpod itself.
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Re:Development Containers by iddan on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:31AM (#34515461)
Sometimes you need to name something and give it a spec for others to implement it.
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Re:Development Containers by panzerboy on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:31AM (#34515833)
Yeah, I really hope JetBrains would adopt this spec as well. So far they seem to be going in another direction.
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