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ehutch79 on Dec 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1

I deploy on linux, but dev on macOS without a vm or docker or anything. If you're not doing anything OS dependant, which most web apps don't, you can run everything natively.

diveanon on Dec 16, 2020 [–]

Isolation is another important reason people use docker.

I don't want my developers to have to manage a complex dev stack and it's dependencies.

I would argue that this is the primary use case for local docker dev these days.

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