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by PeterStuer3 hours ago |
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upvoteby dbmikus3 hours ago|
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Def!

My personal belief is that the future of an "app" is a combo:

    1. micro VM
    2. agent on the VM
    3. software bundled into the VM
So, it should be stupid simple to run these local sandboxed apps/agents. Right now, not too hard for technical users (esp. with things like https://smolmachines.com/ and https://microsandbox.dev/), but not as easy as clicking an app icon or typing `/path/to/binary` in the CLI
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upvoteby spockz2 hours ago|
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Microsandbox claims to start faster than docker, and it is isolated from the host, and to work with OCI. Why would I still want to use docker? The only reason I can imagine is that I actually want to be able to dynamically share resources between containers instead of dividing up VMs a priori.

Ah, the significant compute overhead: https://josecastillolema.github.io/podman-wasm-libkrun/. Much more cpu and ram usage at worse performance.

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upvoteby chrisweekly1 hours ago|
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I was going to add a comment praising smolmachines' smolvms. Simple, fast (sub-200ms cold start), OCI-compat, and has trivial packing to standalone 0-dep executables. No need for Docker Desktop / colima / orbstack. For those who prioritize security, kernel isolation is a meaningful benefit.
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upvoteby indigodaddy29 minutes ago|
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You basically described exe.dev
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upvoteby skybrian51 minutes ago|
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How do you do it?
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