Docker -> Colima?

The Docker onboarding process is not great. I learned today that, when setting up local dev environments for wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ and wordcamp.org changes, there is an Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. alternative called Colima.

  • MIT-licensed.
  • Drop-in runtime. wp-env, docker compose, and build scripts work unchanged.
  • Lighter. No GUI, no tray process, lower memory and CPU usage.
  • Lower barrier to entry. brew install, no account, no license prompt.
  • MacOS and Linux only, though, for Windows there’s Rancher Desktop.

I was able to get everything up and running with Colima and didn’t notice any problems. What would change: the handbook, the wp-env quickstart, and README setup sections would point to Colima as the default, with Rancher Desktop noted as an alternative.

Thoughts?