alt Hacker NewsSorry off topic question but has Docker come up with a easy to use dev solution. I always end up with using Devcontainer: it solves the sandboxed, ready to use dev env.
But the actual experience with developing on VSCode with Dev Containers is not great. It's laggy and slow.
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mfro • today at 2:01 PM
Devcontainers are great for me on windows and macos. What stack are you using?
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wilsonpa • today at 1:39 PM
Really? I work across multiple vscode projects (locally), some use dev-containers and others don't. I have never noticed any difference in experience across the two.
I have also used them remotely (ssh and using tailscale) and noticed a little lag, but nothing really distracting.
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My one experience with dev containers put me off of dev containers... but standard `docker compose` is just great for me.
I worked at a company where we were trying to test code with our product and, for a time, everyone on the team was given a mandate to go out and find X number of open source projects to test against, every week.
Independently, every member of the (small) team settled on only trying to test repos where you could do:
Everything else was just a nightmare to boot up their environment in a reasonable amount of time.