On: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

[thethimble]

Have you considered using docker? Seems possibly more lightweight than a VM with more isolation than a user account based method.

[netcoyote → thethimble]

Yes, I've used docker and podman. They're great. But I wanted to be able to run Xcode and IOS simulator, which requires macOS, so developed these solutions.

[itake → thethimble]

My gripe with docker vs native code is docker is just slow to build. or maybe im just not using it right.

[asimovDev → thethimble]

on macOS Docker is just a QEMU VM underneath, to my limited understanding, so not a big difference I think