#Devcontainers will be a thing when the number of hours spend fighting #podman and #docker are less than the number of hours spent trying to install an app from an outdated README
We ain't there yet. This technology is like 40 or 50 years premature.
#Devcontainers
Switch to #devcontainers! Instead of fighting with apt-get, pyenv, native dependencies you can now fight with #podman.
#devcontainers strategies
- almost empty, contains just runtime (e.g. python)
- also contains IDE tooling (vscode needs node)
- also contains dotfiles, but just for git & maybe bash
- contains the TUI tools that gave rise to dotfiles popularity
---- oh shoot, common TUI tools also need rust & go toolchain
And now this image is 2GBs.