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One advantage of Docker is reliable host-to-container file change notifications, allowing tools like Vite inside the container to detect changes. Podman and many alternatives don’t handle this well for our web development on macOS.

Not even Tart or Apple Container support it, as far as I know. Maybe someone has found a way.



> don’t handle this well for our web development on macOS

In general this seems to be a common complaint here. If you're developing with cloud runners or on linux infra you won't run into this, but on macOS for local development it is impactful.


Thats a use-case I never tried but seems valid. Is it a common issue on macOS?


Yeah, it doesn't work with Apple Containers.

Works with OrbStack though.




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