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  _doctor_love
  My current power move in the age of AI: do nothing.I had an idea like this and thought I could vibe code it, but then I figured someone else would care more and do it first. I was right!This looks like a great app and I'm excited to try it out.Free idea: I would like to be able to "jail" an agent inside a VM and send instructions to the harness from outside the VM to agent(s) installed inside. Ideally there is no Codex/Claude/etc. installed on the host.More awesome: let me provision multiple user accounts inside the VM and restrict filesystem / network policy by user. Then I can have a dev agent, QA agent, etc. each with its own view of the work. That would be a powerful base layer for further automation.Of course I should be able to provision various resources "attached" to the VM that agents can use on a permissioned basis; e.g., DB, queue, external volume, and so forth.
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  simonw
  This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly.28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5".Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch.Suggestion: add a getting started tutorial to the site which suggests an image to try out and has screenshots (or a silent video) showing you how to get that image up and running and what you can do with it.The create image dialog suggests "nginx:latest" but that's not a great starting demo.
• keremimo
  Looks good, Apple Containers is neat except it is just another set of commands we gotta memorize.I like it! I would like it even more if we could choose which terminal app the containers open in. Is that doable?
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  dllrr
  I've been a fan of Orbstack for make 2 years or so. Worth the cost for me because it's so well integrated and fast and docker command compatible.I'll give this a try though.
• internet2000
  Really nice. Worked perfectly downloading the runtime and running nginx:latest.It's getting to the point that scrolling down on Github and seeing Claude as a contributor is a signal the app will be good (Native feeling, no Electron, etc)
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  reassess_blind
  How does this compare to OrbStack? Do Apple Containers offer anything in the dev experience that I would notice? OrbStack’s implementation already feels lightning fast for my usage.
• pjmlp
  > No Electron, no web views, no background agents of its own.Sweet, regardless of the AI help.If anything even more so, no excuses for lazy Electron, with AI helping hand.Kudos.
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  ozarkerD
  Man I wish Apple would add docker api compatibility to Apple containers
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  lelandfe
  Unrelated. I noticed that the settings window (Cmd-,) text inputs all type from the right instead of the left like older macOS inputs (or web inputs[0])Is that a thing macOS is moving to? I'm sure I've seen Apple use these too.[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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  neodymiumphish
  contained-app includes a Files feature to allow in-container filesystem browsing. Is there any plan to implement this in Davit as well?Looks like great work, will try it soon!
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  Groxx
  Kinda interestingly: it zips to 17MB, but the binary looks to be 56MB (davit.app/contents/macos/davit). That seems like a surprising amount of compression for a binary - embedded assets maybe? Possibly this is normal for mac apps though?
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  bbg2401
  Other recent vibe-coded projects providing similar interfaces:- https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app- https://github.com/tofa84/berth
• david_p
  I will give this a try!Docker desktop on mac does not work well (uses lots of resources) and my current alternative is OrbStack (very slick, uses far less resources, but freemium).
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  ballislife30
  Docker desktop is a memory hog. What's the memory usage of Davit?
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  siquick
  Very nice - would love to see the ability to open a Dockerfile directly in the UI to build/run it.
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  nvahalik
  I really want to use this but am stuck (right now) having to use Caddy's docker tags integration for name resolution.
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  mrbnprck
  Looks great, does it also come with a menubar integration?
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  MoonWalk
  I don't know a lot about containers. Would containers created for/with this also work in Docker?Good name for this app, BTW.
• nf-x
  Looks neat, need to give it a spin
• piosin
  Any hosting requirements?
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  armanj
  can someone tldr me why choose apple container (and its ui) over docker (and orbstack)
• dom96
  ooh nice
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  oulipo2
  How does it compare to something like OrbStack?
• vladsiu
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  3836293648
  > Tiny. A single ~17 MB appOh goodness what have we come to? I know we're comparing to electron monstrosities, but still