As someone who works at NanoVMs you can run them locally but if you don't need to might as well run them natively (eg: not as a unikernel). As for "maintaining

As someone who works at NanoVMs you can run them locally but if you don't need to might as well run them natively (eg: not as a unikernel). As for "maintaining for linux" - most people are deploying their software to linux servers so if you can develop on linux that's great but if you develop on windows or mac you're going to have to do that regardless if you're using unikernels or not.