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This is not a good experience. I’ve tried it a few times because it sounds great on paper: declarative, portable, consistent dev environment! Who doesn’t want t
by kitotik 6y ago
This is not a good experience. I’ve tried it a few times because it sounds great on paper: declarative, portable, consistent dev environment! Who doesn’t want that?
In practice it’s slow, laggy, and a maintenance time sink.
I haven’t tried it yet, but something like NixOS seems far better suited to this problem than containers.
- takeda 6y ago> I haven’t tried it yet, but something like NixOS seems far better suited to this problem than containers. You don't need to go whole NixOS to get those benefits. Installing Nix on your OS can also provide it. Although experience is better on NixOS.