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Apple's new lightweight VM container runtime for Mac, interesting for dev workflows.

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A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - apple/container
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Apple's open-source 'container' tool creates and runs Linux containers as lightweight VMs on Apple silicon Macs, written in Swift and consuming OCI-compatible images. It leverages macOS 26's virtualization and networking enhancements, installable via signed packages or scripts, and is pre-1.0 with breaking changes between minor versions.

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