I use devcontainers in https://github.com/holyjak/interactive-dev-wshop and at the time I last had Windows participants, we discovered this > Beware: This directory must be at a place where both VS Code and Docker can see it. That might be an issue under Windows and WSL based on your setup. but that was a while back and can be different now. Otherwise it seemed to work fine.

We've been using dev containers with Clojure (and some python tools) for a few years now, in VS Code with Calva, and are quite happy with it. No fussing around with setting things up "windows style", as you can work 100% of your time in your linux dev container and not worry about windows.

I really start to like it. I discovered that there is as well a cli tool for it: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/devcontainer-cli which makes devcontainer fully usable without using vscode. It seems to work well. This make me hope that "adopting devcontainers" does not mean "adopting vscode"

I've seen some automated support for dev containers in JetBrain's IDEs. I'm yet to try it.

So it seems to get some traction, that's good. I found as well a first "alternative" implementation of the devcontainer CLI: https://gitlab.com/smoores/open-devcontainer