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Devcontainers running as non root. Trivial t set up. Don’t need to fanny around with a Vm

I've tried devcontainers in the past and the performance compared to my current setup was pretty bad. This was a few years ago when it was known that filesystem-heavy workloads on Docker for Mac were sub-optimal. I remember having to define several bind mounts which improved the overall performance. I do intend to revisit this solution next time I need to set up a dev environment but rest assured there was nothing substantially more complex about a VM versus devcontainers.

I use it at the moment and don't really find any noticable difference between running directly on my host, and in a dev container. If I were to measure the performance I'm sure there would be something, but it's not noticable in my development cycle.

They also seem to be pushing it beyond vscode and into something which is editor agnostic. It's not quite there yet on that front, but I'm excited for it as I've been dabbling with other editors recently which don't support devcontainers directly and it always pulls me back to vscode.

It's on a journey for sure, but I've had no performance issues when using it straight out of the box over the past year.

So why are you commenting on it now as if it hasn’t changed or evolved since then? Give it another try now. It is really good.

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