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0 pointsstackskipton1y ago0 comments

Alot of programming languages don't integrate with memfd_secret because while most stuff runs on Linux, very few people actually develop in Linux and thus the friction.

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mhitza1y ago

Most people deploy on Linux. I think developers are doing themselves a disservice by chosing Windows/MacOS for developer machines, and maybe with the recent sentiment of "servers are better than the cloud" we might be heading to a direction where such integration is more likely.

Or at least I'm hopeful of that. Heck, even developing directly inside VMs would be better in terms of absorbing production knowledge and finding more useful features one can use for their apps, than just slapping everything into a docker container.

giantrobot1y ago

> I think developers are doing themselves a disservice by chosing Windows/MacOS for developer machines

When Linux runs as well on a laptop as my MacBook, I mean everything from touchpad gestures to power management, I'll switch over as my primary development environment. In the meantime I have to get work done that does not involve messing around to make sure my laptop works properly and/or fighting with a terrible touchpad.

I have been using Linux for decades, its happily plugging away on several machines in my house right this second, however I have never been able to have it run as well on a laptop as macOS does on a PowerBook/MacBook. I do my development work on a laptop and unfortunately Linux is at best an 80% solution there.

So I'm not doing myself a disservice not using Linux as my main development environment. I'm running a POSIX system and am interested in POSIX-compatible solutions to things like secrets management.