Docker sounds heavyweight for this purpose, given that it essentially spawns a complete userland separate from the host. I work on Guix; it provides a 'guix en

Docker sounds heavyweight for this purpose, given that it essentially spawns a complete userland separate from the host. I work on Guix; it provides a 'guix environment' command, which is sort of a generic 'virtualenv', and IMO is a simple lightweight alternative: https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-environment.html https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-enviro... .