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Potential challenges

• Running GUI apps within Docker container on both Linux and Mac host (http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/)

• Making switch available to users with minimum hassle

  • Shouldn't use Ruby as setting Ruby in itself can be complicated
  • Shouldn't use Perl as managing dependencies can be complicated. And I don't know enough Perl. And I think Perl code is very readable and manageable.
  • Compiled language could be used. For instance, Go. So that we can just distribute pre-compiled binaries.
  • Maybe NodeJS can be used (I don't remember Kitematic asking to install NodeJS first - unless developing)

• Running out of space on the Virtualbox image on Mac.

  • I just recreated image with 100GB: boot2docker -s 102400 init