> But surely if your code base is that difficult to setup your dev environment for - it’s likely a sign of much bigger problems? I think it less about difficul

> But surely if your code base is that difficult to setup your dev environment for - it’s likely a sign of much bigger problems? I think it less about difficulty and more about when you have a desire to run your dev environment in a container. How are you getting your source code into the container? How is your editor accessing the source code to make changes etc. Dev Containers provides a pattern to follow for doing this that works across tools and OS that can simplify it for your team. If you work on a large team where devs work on the OS and Editor of their choice it can also simplify the development docs and environments you need to maintain. You can develop things like Node, Python, Ruby natively on Windows but if you are deploying on Linux, especially if in a container on Linux, having the dev environment running in Docker has advantages and there is less for the developer to setup and maintain.