What's your preference instead of Docker? Just run everything on the same host OS? Nix? More conventional VMs? Servers with specific configurations?
The scripting environment managers have made big improvements in the past few years. Nvm/virtualenv/rvm give me 90% of the docker value prop with none of the performance impact or debug hassle.
Haskell/clojure/java all seem platform agnostic out of the box.
C/C++ is probably still a hassle with libs being platform specific.
But on the Mac you have to pay the virtualization overhead to run Linux in a VM, then compound the docker overhead on top of that.
On MacBook Pro this is problematic because it eats battery and contributes to thermal problems.
This article shows overhead for a disk heavy workload: https://vivait.co.uk/labs/docker-for-mac-performance-using-n...
He gets 7 second load time natively, but a 56 second load on docker with inconsistent drive link.