What's our container story?

Ki rill.ki at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 15 14:16:30 UTC 2025


On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 15:10:15 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> With Apple's [Containerization announcement 
> yesterday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQtvbhtXmo) and 
> GitHub Codespaces running Linux containers, it appears the 
> container thing is a big deal. I admit I don't know a lot about 
> them beyond playing with Docker a few years back.
>
> Looking at Docker Hub, I see there is an organization called 
> dlangdockerized that makes semi-recent releases of DMD and LDC 
> available. Do we have any getting started documentation 
> available, and do we provide any other containers (for 
> instance, to do web development)? I plan to use GitHub 
> Codespaces for a class I'm teaching next semester. It would 
> sure be nice to have some guidance on getting things up and 
> running. This seems to be the extent of the documentation: 
> `docker pull dlangdockerized/dmd` and then the user is on their 
> own to figure out the rest.

I also recently tried building [docker 
images](https://hub.docker.com/r/kirillsaidov/dlang) for D tool 
chain. Implemented 
[Dockerfiles](https://github.com/kirillsaidov/dlang-docker) for 
both DMD and LDC2 compilers using `ubuntu:24.04` as base image.


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