Is MAMP still the choice when installing something locally on the Mac for testing (PHP/MySQL)? It never worked great for me, but there seem to be no great alternatives either…
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@yatil Used it for years; great solution. Never wanted to look at anything else.
@yatil yes, can recommend it as well.
@helloanselm @yatil That is a nice tool set! Didn’t know about either before, and really liking Orbstack, also for its good VoiceOver support. And it runs even very fast on a MacBook Neo.
@yatil If you are working with a CMS, I would suggest Docker Desktop and DDEV. https://docs.ddev.com/en/stable/users/quickstart/
@yatil No, I would either go for Herd or DDEV. Herd has unfortunately added a bunch of unnecessary AI crap to the latest version, but it's still a far better experience than MAMP. DDEV is working with containers, which is a bit heavier but still pretty fantastic.
@bastianallgeier Oh, I did use herd before my system imploded in January 😁 I don’t like the AIification. Maybe I look at DDEV, but my brain does not do Docker too well :-D
@yatil With DDEV you don't have to care about docker that much. DDEV does the heavy lifting and I would recommend Orbstack on macOS instead of Docker. Faster and lighter.
Lots of orbstack/DDEV recommendations, so that’s what I’m trying now :-)