> Who is it for, exactly? Developers can handle installing things.
You’d be surprised about how many developers can’t and also don’t want to handle setting things up. But I’m not judging them. Docker stuff can get complicated quickly.
You’d be surprised about how many developers can’t and also don’t want to handle setting things up. But I’m not judging them. Docker stuff can get complicated quickly.
Maybe it’s not represented on HN, but a lot of developers just want to get their work done and not get sucked into the complexity of the myriad ways they can set up their development machines, so a “one-click” installer works well for them even with some downsides (that may not even become issues for them).
> not get sucked into the complexity of the myriad ways they can set up their development machines
This is partially due to the tech-blogosphere advice being like linux distros: whenever someone feels like there’s too many blog posts with too many differing approaches, they write a new blog post which adds yet another search result to wade through.