> From the outside, it feels like some heavy VM thing for building isolated systems in the cloud I use Docker for everything locally. As a Python dev tired of

> From the outside, it feels like some heavy VM thing for building isolated systems in the cloud I use Docker for everything locally. As a Python dev tired of fighting with different versions, virtual environments, wheel-issues etc... > This makes it more available to external contributors, because they don't have to learn/install tools like Docker that aren't typically seen in JS. I feel it's a bigger burden on me having to install whatever tools a random project expects. I vastly prefer a Dockerfile that just works, without me having to spend hours matching their setup, and also has the benefit that it doesn't pollute my system with lots of stuff.