[jt2190]

> container runs containers differently. Using the open source Containerization package, it runs a lightweight VM for each container that you create. This approach has the following properties:

> - Security: Each container has the isolation properties of a full VM, using a minimal set of core utilities and dynamic libraries to reduce resource utilization and attack surface.

> - Privacy: When sharing host data using container, you mount only necessary data into each VM. With a shared VM, you need to mount all data that you may ever want to use into the VM, so that it can be mounted selectively into containers.

> -Performance: Containers created using container require less memory than full VMs, with boot times that are comparable to containers running in a shared VM.

More details, including technical limitations (they’re looking for bug reports and contributions): “Container: Technical Overview” https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...

[mikepurvis]

Sounds like a lot of the same choices/compromises that are in wsl2.

[sqquima]

Yes, this looks similar to wslc announced at Microsoft Build. They should have joined forces, Apple and Microsoft. Can you imagine?

[parl_match]

You mean like for the first 20 years or so of Apple and Microsoft's history?