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Dmitrii Pashutskii

I'd really love to move on Docker some day and start using it more.

But so far I just use my Unix-like system to set everything up. I like Unix environment and I know how most of the things work, so I prefer it third parties.

As much as possible I try to manage environments with version managers like nvm for Node and rbenv for Ruby. For sure, it's not the perfect and I have a bunch of artefacts anyway.
Docker would be perfect, but I have put some time to figure it out.

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Madza • Edited

I must say I was not a huge fan of Docker, cause of time spent setting everything up. It felt pretty complex at the beginning and towards the end I had doubts whether or not it is worth it at all.

But then again, I've heard a lot of awesome feedback about it from devs, who are proficient on it and use it on a daily basis.

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Dmitrii Pashutskii

Yeah, agreed. It's one of these instruments where you have to spend time to learn it but eventually you get rewarded.
The similar ones are VIM, Webpack or even Alfred.