Windows support

[dragosv]

Many projects require Windows as a development platform. Need to support Windows containers, not just Linux

[JohnLockwood]

Agreed -- it would appear this is not supported even for custom containers locally on VS Code, let alone on CodeSpaces. It's a weird historical development -- Microsoft used to really want to get the developer experience right on Windows to grow its mindshare. Now it develops or owns so many resources for open source work -- GitHub, VS Code, CodeSpaces, etc. -- but its own developers can go fish. I suspect some pushback from the lawyers in the licensing department, but what do I know? I just don't work here.

[RollsChris]

Yea i feel this is ridiculous, I cant use dev containers because i work primarily with windows tech ;(. Ive also spent hours wasted trying to get it to work, so the fact that its not supported should be conveyed a lot better. Also is this not a lie:

[thsmdt]

They are correct in that Windows can host devcontainer. On Windows, there are two kinds of docker executors: one that runs Linux containers, another for windows containers. Apparently, for now devcontainer only supports the Linux container variant. The actual containers OS is listed below.

[thsmdt]

At work, we also have a tech-stack that would benefit from devcontainer for Windows containers.
As of right now, there is no matching base image for these, yet I am wondering what the reasons could be.

The base images themselves don’t seem to be all too special (just an ‘expected’ Dockerfile).