[gentele]

There are 3 main differences: 1) DevPod is based on GitHub/Microsoft's devcontainer.json standard while GitPod has their own file format 2) DevPod is client-only more like Terraform where the client creates/manages things directly using cloud credentials vs GitPod is a server-side solution to manage and provision dev workspaces 3) DevPod has a provider concept similar to Terraform that allows you to provision dev environments in ANY infra vs GitPod is mostly a hosted solution (they do have the option to host it yourself as well but it's usually you install it to one cloud and then provision in that same cloud vs DevPod is 1 client (no server, see point 2) and then you deploy the dev env in ANY cloud or even locally in Docker or local k8s)

[brancz]

Interesting! Might give this a try some time. I occasionally find myself needing a Linux environment, and my primary device is an arm64 mac, I think it could be useful for that.

More generally what do you see being the prime use cases?

[ycrab]

Basically anything you'd use GitHub Codespaces for but without having to pay them a hefty fee + you get to choose your cloud provider (or self-hosted k8s). I.e. if you have some left over aws credits, you could start off with that but quickly change the provider if you need to move to gcp or azure

[theCodeStig]

Are there any plans for an iPadOS client?

[ycrab]

we're thinking about it but don't have any immediate plans. Mostly because it's not a straight forward port and we want to make sure it's stable on linux/windows/macOS before tackling mobile. Would be awesome for developing on the road though