It's handy to be able to do this with things you already know you want to be able to do inside your container. The downside for me though, has been having to th

It's handy to be able to do this with things you already know you want to be able to do inside your container. The downside for me though, has been having to throw away all the careful tweaks I have made to my development environment over the years. The muscle memory of my long list of .bash_aliases. My custom git config with shortcuts. My scripts in ~/bin. Hell even installed software that doesn't fit in with the purpose of the project, think things like `jq`. Also worth noting that the "permissions issues" he mentions are handled automatically by Docker for Mac. I had the exact problem of files created inside the container being owned by root on Linux, and all my mac-using colleagues just stared at me like I had horns on my head. "It works on my machine" still exists, even with Docker.