Comment by lloeki

6 months ago

> On non-Linux, you obviously need an additional kernel running (the Linux kernel)

Only "obvious" for running Linux processes using Linux container facilities (cgroups)

Windows has its own native facilities allowing Windows processes to be containerised. It just so happens that in addition to that, there's WSL2 at hand to run Linux processes (containerised or not).

There is nothing preventing Apple to implement Darwin-native facilities so that Darwin processes would be containerised. It would actually be very nice to be able to distribute/spin up arbitrary macOS environments with some minimal CLI + CLT base† and run build/test stuff without having to spawn full-blown macOS VMs.