• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Take a look at devContainers as an idea that might be generalized. It’s just docker containers so so big but not huge however the use case ….

    devContainers are a complete portable development environment, with support from major IDEs. Let’s say I want to work on a Java service. I open my IDE, it pulls the latest Java devContainer with my environment and all my tools, fetches the latest from git, and I’m ready to go. The problem with this use case is I’m waiting this whole time. I don’t want to sit around for a minute or two every time I want to edit a program. The latest copy needs to be here, now, as I open my IDE