If Docker for mac was running natively it would be more or less useless. Nobody deploys production code on MacOS hosts anymore.
That it is all so smoothly powered by Linux is what makes it a great product.
That it is all so smoothly powered by Linux is what makes it a great product.
If apple gave a shit about non apple developers they would provide the kernel hooks to help make it possible.
Also, nobody deploys on mac hosts because virtualizing macos in a cloud environment is against tos, so options are expensive and limited.
I don't want my developers to have to manage a complex dev stack and it's dependencies.
I would argue that this is the primary use case for local docker dev these days.
If the containers where native Macos docker images it would be about as useful as native Docker on Windows. Which I'm sure is great for the few ppl that need it - but pretty useless for most ppl.
But I sure wouldn't mind if was a bit snappier. But it is plenty fast enough for my needs atm.
This may already be the case, but the memory allocation for docker vm on mac really handicaps things.