Mise ... vs Dev Container Environment setup

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Issue type
Documentation
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documentation

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No documentation file or entry point is named. Review the existing dev container setup guidance and the linked Mise documentation first, then identify where a comparison paragraph belongs. Done means explaining when to prefer each approach, including the Windows, WSL, and container case.

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Hello, would it make sense to explain in a paragraph to an outsider when a dev container is to be preferred to using Mise (or its predecessors like asdf) to set up a dev environment and vice versa?
For example, under Microsoft Windows, the dev environment likely has to be used inside WSL with a container?

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