Docker desktop is a memory hog. What's the memory usage of Davit?
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#22contained-app includes a Files feature to allow in-container filesystem browsing. Is there any plan to implement this in Davit as well? Looks like great work, will try it soon!
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#23Is that a thing macOS is moving to? I'm sure I've seen Apple use these too.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
OrbStack has its own virtualization layer designed to simulate Docker. Containerization has different primitives even though it supports the same OCI images
Okay, so it allows to run the same image, but is not CLI-compatible with docker that's what you mean? But is it more / less / equivalently efficient ?
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#25This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly. 28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5". Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch. Suggestion: add a getting started tutorial to the site which suggests an image to try out and…
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#26I'll give this a try though.
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#27I've been a fan of Orbstack for make 2 years or so. Worth the cost for me because it's so well integrated and fast and docker command compatible. I'll give this a try though.
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#29Other recent vibe-coded projects providing similar interfaces: - https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app - https://github.com/tofa84/berth
I like to vet my options before committing to new software but who knows if the authors are gonna support these in a month? I don’t want to waste Fable tokens to fix bugs myself when they crop up.
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#30Oh goodness what have we come to? I know we're comparing to electron monstrosities, but still