This is a potential and promising competitor to DesktopServer (https://serverpress.com/get-desktopserver/ https://serverpress.com/get-desktopserver/) which I've

This is a potential and promising competitor to DesktopServer (https://serverpress.com/get-desktopserver/ https://serverpress.com/get-desktopserver/) which I've been a long-time user of. It just added support for WP-CLI and relies on XAMPP. Theme Juice looks more promising as it does not touch my root system but comes as a virtual machine. Another advantage of Theme Juice seems to be built-in deployment. DS does not help with that. I have been using WordMove for that task and wonder whether Capistrano is really the better alternative. But I also have some critical things to say about Theme Juice. First, the name. Theme Juice sounds like a premium WP theme vendor. I sense why want to use "Juice" but "Theme" should definitely not be there. Another big issue is that you do not support PHP7. I am pretty sure that most professional WordPress developers now only start with PHP7 as the advantages are huge and the downsides negleticable. And for projects big enough to need a local dev, constraints on servers should not be an issue as you are most probably either running an own server (where you can choose your own PHP settings) or are using a solid WP host like WPEngine, Pagely or Pantheon which all support PHP7.