I use docker to build a particularly complex (at least to me) NDS project. I do this because I regularly develop on Windows or Linux, so do my friends, and none

I use docker to build a particularly complex (at least to me) NDS project. I do this because I regularly develop on Windows or Linux, so do my friends, and none of us have simple working arrangements. The toolkits for NDS are a bit of a pain to set up, and I want the source for my project to be usable by anyone in the community, regardless of what platform they use, or what changes happen to the development tools over time. Thus, docker. It lets me figure out compile-time libraries and dependencies once, ever, on one platform. (Debian base.) Then magically everyone else on the team can just hit up the build script, which calls into the docker image (building it first if needed) and viola, project built. It's not nearly as efficient for compiling and making frequent changes, but in our case, the lack of complex setup and differences between build environments is worth the extra overhead. I think there's something to be said for Docker as a development tool in general; it's nice to be able to play around with development libraries without (a) cluttering up my main machine's list of installed packages, or (b) spinning up a virtual machine and sapping my workstation's RAM.