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Devcontainers[1] are the new incarnation of this pattern. We use them at work and they are a dream for onboarding new developers. The only downside is the VSCode lock-in but if that's a concern there's always DevPod[2].

[1] https://containers.dev/

[2] https://devpod.sh/

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It looks like the team behind it have been moving it towards more of an open standard over the last year. There's now a CLI reference implementation, and the Jetbrains IDE's have an implementation for it.

There's also a thread for Zed about a path to implementing it there [0]. Hopefully it'll become a bit more common over 2025.

[0] - https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11473

I think vs code is the easiest way to set up dev containers, but once they are created I mostly just shell into them and use neovim!

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