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It's cool but also not as revolutionary as you make it sound. You can already install Podman, Orbstack or Colima right? Not sure which open-source framework the
by mmcnl 1y ago
It's cool but also not as revolutionary as you make it sound. You can already install Podman, Orbstack or Colima right? Not sure which open-source framework they are using, but to me it seems like an OS-level integration of one of these tools. That's definitely a big win and will make things easier for developers, but I'm not sure if it's a gamechanger.
- rnubel 1y agoAll those tools use a Linux VM (whether managed by Qemu or VZ) to run the actual containers, though, which comes with significant overhead. Native support for running containers -- with no need for a VM -- would be huge.
- mmcnl 1y agoYes, it seems like it's actually a more refined implementation than what currently exists. Call me pleasantly surprised!
- SpaceNugget 1y agothere's still a VM involved to run a Linux container on a Mac. I wouldn't expect any big performance gains here.
- jemmyw 1y agoStill needs a VM. It'll be running more VMs than something like orbstack, which I believe runs just one for the docker implementation. Whether that means better or worse performance we'll find out.
- timsneath 1y agoThe framework that container uses is built in Swift and also open sourced today, along with the CLI tool itself: https://github.com/apple/containerization https://github.com/apple/containerization