Source: JetBrains’ “The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023” survey
Huh, I mean you’re saying a lot but still.
There are 200 open issues for docker compose, nearly 600 for docker cli.
The number of open issues means nothing without context.
Again, I’d love to hear about actual peculiarities you run into because as of yet in the last 5 years I’ve developed on a MBP (work provided, I previously “hated” Apple) I haven’t had these issues you’re claiming are all over.
The number of open issues means nothing without context.
The context is that the issues for docker compose and docker CLI are almost identical across Linux hosts and can be worked around, there are 426 additional issues just for Mac one has to watch out for.
Our main issues on Mac (that I can remember):
- Severe slowdowns causing healthchecks to fail (Mostly caused by slow network requests and writing/reading thousands of smaller files)
- Environment variables not being applied correctly to build containers
- docker-compose file differences, e.g. newer versions not available or older versions deprecated earlier
- Under high load the VM chokes even though there are plenty of resources available
- I never was able to set permanent sysctl configs needed for some of our applications.
- On ARM: Building some of our x86 containers is seriously slow and eats a lot of RAM
- On ARM: Running x86 containers is much slower, sometimes hangs and sometimes even crashes the VM
You’ve said enough at this point for me to recognize it’s your bias speaking.
