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This is why if Apple ever did a legitimate server offering with virtualization they would kill it. How many devs, develop on Mac and deploy to linux? And also now use VMs for containers. Imagine if MacOS supported containers natively. They leave so much money on the table.

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Very unlikely. "My way or the highway" is ingrained in their corporate DNA. Can't think of an attitude less suited for server side work where optimization to custom workloads makes massive cost difference

Are you arguing for native macOS containers (like Windows containers but for the Xnu kernel rather than NT kernel?) or for macOS to somehow support Linux containers (and system calls) "natively," more like BSD's Linux system call emulation and Windows' so-called "Windows Subsystem for Linux?"

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