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Another common slow down is bind mounts. Each file system operation is an RPC request between Docker for Mac and the Linux VM.

I’ve never been super happy with Docker for Mac. I did a pretty deep dive into figuring out why it’s so slow with no satisfying conclusion: https://stackoverflow.com/q/58277794/30900

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This is also true for Windows. WSL2 made containers faster, but FS is painfully slow. Sounds like the best thing (apart from switching) is running Linux in a VM (Hyper-V does OK) and having IDE, Docker and all the data in there.

> WSL2 made containers faster, but FS is painfully slow.

If you keep your code base in WSL 2's file system it's really really fast. Even thousands of tiny asset files will get picked up and compiled through multiple Webpack loaders in ~100ms on 5+ year old hardware.

What I really had an issue with was the timespan between modifying a file in an editor (running in Windows) and the change being actually present in the container. I had to restart tests way too often because the old code was executing, which was really annonying, as sometimes you can't really tell if it failed because of the old code, or because the implementation was wrong.

The problem here is the delay between Windows and WSL2, once the files are in WSL2, it's fine.

I may give it another chance, though. Thank you.

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