Anyone have recommendations for devs looking to run a dev environment on a Mac without installing a bunch of dev dependencies on the local machine?

My plan right now is to buy a 2nd mac and use VS Code remote development over ssh.

Microsoft's Dev Containers [0] is pretty slick, especially when used with GitHub Codespaces [1] if you want remote development.

[0] https://containers.dev [1] https://github.com/features/codespaces