I use Apple's Container tool on macOS, and Podman on other OSes. I really like Apple's Container. The only issue I have currently is that there are some annoying networking bugs, but to my knowledge, the developers are aware of them. So, hopefully the bugs will be fixed before too long.

Every time I create/start a container, I have to override the container's default DNS server or access to the Internet is blocked/Domain Names will not resolve. A work around exists, and is not too bad, so I still get a lot of value of Container. There is no way I am installing Claude Code nor Node.js on my host machine, and thankfully, I am not forced to.