New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you use a dev container and why?

Ask HN: Do you use a dev container and why?
2 by backslash_16 | 5 comments on Hacker News.
I've never really worked with containers in my professional career and I'm learning about them now. It's hard to tell from reading online if people are using them for their dev environments or if they're developing on their host (or native, whatever you want to call it) and using a container to package the application after its built. What do you use containers for? Do you setup your dev environment in a container, and if you do, I've got tons of questions. - Do you do it for every language? - Do you install your static analysis and other tools in the container? - Do you debuggers work (Visual Studio, gdb, pdb, whatever) If you use a container for only your post-development workflow do you ever use separate containers for build and test vs the final packaged application?