As a mac user, I'm not sure I agree with this. Docker does technically work cross platform of course. But it's slow everywhere except for linux. I'd much rather have binary (or even better a `brew install`) than a docker image.
Still not as fast as on Linux, but within 10% of running it natively for me.
What about server workloads where the storage is completely inside the container / on a different server?
The circumstances you're describing sound like it wouldn't be suffering this specific issue in the first place, so I'm not sure how much it'd help.
It would be much nicer if apple coexisted instead of apple-language, apple-frameworks, apple-laserlike-navel-focus. Do community interaction, not just over-the-wall to opensource.apple.com
a native apple docker would be great. Imagine:
FROM macos:10.13.2
RUN xcode-build ....They're perfectly willing to ruin the lives of countless devs / CI/CD devs, who have to support their crappy platforms, because you can't virtualize MacOS (only AWS can, and even then, it can only be rented in 24h increments at super high prices).
Apple controls the end users, their end users have money so devs just have to come crawling to be able to make and sell their apps.
I'm not saying it should be the _only_ distribution option, and standalone binaries and other packages should be provided as well, but there's no reason for Docker to not be one of them.