Comment by nojs

9 hours ago

It seems like everyone wants to avoid running a local VM manually and I'm not sure why. It's a very simple solution that solves all these issues.

If you're on a Mac working on a linux docker containers, your Docker engine is already running a VM (and a linux VM doesn't need one). So you're still only "one VM away" from the real environment. Most IDEs support directly working in the VM via SSH if you need to inspect the code.

You then run --dangerously-skip-permissions and do all changes via PRs. I have been running this combined with workmux [0] for a couple of months and highly recommend it. You can one-shot several whole PRs concurrently with this setup.

The reason it beats a cloud VM is because when you're running multiple concurrent copies of all containers in a project, it quickly eats up memory. Running a cloud VM 24/7 with high enough memory is expensive.