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I would like it even more if we could choose which terminal app the…",{"value":63,"source":52,"evidence":64},"Mac developers running containers",[65,69],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"48823028","simonw","This 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…",{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"48824625","david_p","I will give this a try! Docker desktop on mac does not work well (uses lots of resources) and my current alternative is OrbStack (very slick, uses far less resources, but…",null,{"value":75,"source":76,"evidence":77},"Maker wants to use it personally and shares source for others","maker",[78],{"id":79},"post",[81,89],{"value":82,"source":83,"evidence":84},"SwiftUI","commenter",[85],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"48831157","mark_l_watson","Nice, I like the functionality and that it is a tiny native SwiftUI app. I recently wrote a blog [1] on using Apple containers for agentic coding; I just updated it to mention…",{"value":90,"source":83,"evidence":91},"ContainerAPIClient library",[92],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"open_source","launched","unknown",{"praise":97,"objections":114,"requests":134,"questions":157,"alternatives":184},[98,110],{"value":99,"source":83,"evidence":100},"Native feel, no Electron, small size",[101,102,106],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"48824366","internet2000","Really nice. 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Do Apple Containers offer anything in the dev experience that I would notice? OrbStack’s implementation already feels lightning fast for my…",{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"48828559","sails","Is this possibly a replacement for Orbstack?",{"value":174,"source":83,"evidence":175},"Do containers work with Docker",[176,180],{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"48824658","MoonWalk","I don't know a lot about containers. Would containers created for\u002Fwith this also work in Docker? Good name for this app, BTW.",{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"48830897","jaffa2","Yeah. I don't quite understand this. Can I use this instead of docker desktop, to run docker containers on my mac 'natively' ? Or this is completely separate from docker ?",[185,193,204],{"value":186,"source":83,"evidence":187},"OrbStack",[188,189],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"48825040","dllrr","I'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.",{"value":194,"source":83,"evidence":195},"Docker Desktop",[196,200],{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"48825567","armanj","can someone tldr me why choose apple container (and its ui) over docker (and orbstack)",{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"48827905","routelastresort","In addition to memory saver that another person replied about, Docker Desktop also has an MCP server functionality and marketplace (almost all free) and huge AI focus. 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