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Orchestration and containerization are heavy dependencies. I prefer few and simple requirements, especially on the environment.
That only works well with tech with a defined or prevalent environment. Then it's a matter of keeping docs up to date - like any doc.
Using small scripts if necessary, and splitting off non central dev workflows helps keeping it simple and focused.
Containerization is only heavy outside of Linux, and orchestration only makes sense when manual orchestration becomes too tedious (it's easy to orchestrate a single app).
Keeping docs for those things is very troublesome imo. You can't feasibly consider everyone's different environment, C library used, their system's package manager and how it may package software differently than yours, and the endless array of things they may have already installed that may effect your app in some way. Sure, it's not super common, but it's hell when it does.
But I suppose if your use case is very simple, like "just have nodejs installed and run npm start" then sure. But things can get ugly very easily.
For toolchains like rust, go, c#, typescript/nodejs how would "things get ugly very fast" when making the toolchain an env dependency?