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> For macOS developers, it’s native support for Linux VMs & containers as well as the rise of Apple Silicon & ARM.

macOS still doesn’t have official support for containers. There is https://macoscontainers.org/ but you have to disable SIP, which is a no go for most professional/work machines.

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Yes, you are technically correct on containers. However, macOS does have native support for Linux VMs (via the Hypervisor / VM frameworks) and then that Linux VM guest has native support for containers. So essentially macOS still provides a gateway to something akin to WSL on Windows, and that’s how tools like podman and docker work, via a Linux VM. (I am over-simplifying, of course.)

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