New feature

Devcontainers are prebuild development environemnts that run within docker and are well supported by VsCode and other ide's.

Use case

• they provide a ready-to-use development environment, improves onboarding especially for developers who want to fix a small issue but dont have time to build another development environment.
• removes local setup friction particularity developers who work across many languages and platforms. Their host os now is no longer cluttered with many versions of python, java / sdks / jdk etc. Each project is just run within a docker container with all the necessary dependencies installed.
• Only dependency is on docker.
• Prevents the 'it works on my machine' dilema.

Suggested implementation

• Add a devcontainer file that specifies
  • The version of java to install and use
  • The package manager to be installed and configured
  • The initialisation scripts to restore dependenceis
  • any setup of env vars / scripts.