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Question for #devcontainer experts: should the container stop when you exit the editor/IDE? Or when you close the project in the editor/IDE? Or neither, and it just stays running? (If it matters, I'm (fosstodon.org)
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Question for #devcontainer experts: should the container stop when you exit the editor/IDE? Or when you close the project in the editor/IDE? Or neither, and it just stays running? (If it matters, I'm using @zed.)

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[โ€“] lascapi@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hi, for me I would say continue to run.

I see the IDE like a front for docker-cli.

[โ€“] scottslowe@fosstodon.org 1 points 2 months ago

@lascapi I guess that would be fine, now that I think about it; in theory, the Devcontainer should take up little to no resources when running.