macpine VS Silicon-Info

I recommend having a look at [1] which allows you to run lightweight alpine VMs on MacOS with easy port forwarding, file sharing, and you can easily run docker inside of it and use docker context to target it.

[1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine

I don't see the point of a dedicated tool for this when it is easy enough just to start a Alpine docker container with a couple commands. As this project is just a wrapper for docker and LXD[1] and those tools are already easy enough for the average SWE to interact with, the project seems to just over-complicate an already existing workflow.

[1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine#motivation

It uses almost same mounting tech as colima (9p)

Macpine: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine/blob/71788e9c3c09c...

colima: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/7ebcf14a69158afa43b2...

So it seems that it has same performance as colima project as well.

As for IO performance, see this colima issue https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/issues/146#issuecomment-1...

It's a free, open-source utility that someone has generously released to the public. I find it useful. I often install and run lots of different apps and open-source things, and sometimes it's convenient to be able to just look at an icon in the menu bar to confirm whether something is running under Rosetta or not. Other people find it useful too. Just because you don't have a use for it, doesn't mean nobody else in the world does either.

> Curious to see what, if anything, is running under translation

There's a useful app called Silicon Info on Github (https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info) and also on the Mac App Store.

It adds a menu bar icon that switches according to the currently-focused app's architecture.

{ pkgs ? import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/b58ada326aa612ea1e2fb9a53d550999e94f1985.tar.gz") {} }: pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec { pname = "silicon-info"; version = "1.0.3"; src = pkgs.fetchurl { url = "https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info/releases/download/1.0.3/Silicon.Info.app.zip"; sha256 = "raa6RmXiqilz4vrvWfMSzIKuaJUFI2xMLUErw64Y0Pk="; }; installPhase = '' mkdir -p $out/Applications mv "Silicon Info.app" $out/Applications ''; meta = with pkgs.lib; { description = "Silicon Info is a tiny menu bar application allows the user to quickly view the architecture of the currently running application."; license = licenses.mit; homepage = "https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info"; platforms = platforms.darwin; }; }

Of course, it is free and open source (check out the code on Github!).

If you already own an Apple Silicon Mac and want to know which apps are running natively as opposed to via Rosetta 2 translation, you can download Silicon Info and see a report of the apps

I'm not sure OP is the developer, but moreso someone trying to just share.. mac app news. I feel the picture and description is self explanatory if you have one, but the full github release is here: https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info