# Coasts

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Coasts and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Coasts for running several docker-compose runtimes side by side, each assigned to its own git worktree, which makes parallel work easier. Its makers say it is not a sandboxing tool.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs parallel docker-compose runtimes per worktree (2 comments): "It's for isolating docker-compose runtimes so you can run multiple localhost runtimes and assign them to your various worktrees." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381331)) "This solves the parallel runtime problem well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587202))
- Makes git worktrees much easier to use (3 comments): "This is really cool, been feeling this pain with worktrees for a while." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583008)) "In my experience it's made worktrees 10x better" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393889)) "I think the ergonomics are just way better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577817))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [direnv](https://hackerapproved.com/p/direnv.md): 34 recommend
- [devenv](https://hackerapproved.com/p/devenv.md): 26 recommend
- [Devbox by Jetify](https://hackerapproved.com/p/devbox.md): 10 recommend
- [Flox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/flox.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Coasts", https://hackerapproved.com/p/coasts/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).