Toolbox seems pretty well suited for a console based development setup. It works as a simple wrapper around docker/podman which lets you build your dev environments using Dockerfile syntax which is very nice.
It is not really what DevPod provides as they connect a code-server, jetbrains, remote vscode, etc. Sure, 'Toolbx' can do that to; you can install vim, etc. We advertise toolbox as "interactive command line environments on Linux" foremost. DevPod offers this on Windows, MacOS, beyond the command line. as you said, it is just a wrapper around a 'special' (custom images can cause issues) toolbox container and podman. The tool they offer is much more streamlined to use providers; targeting different environments. Note: Member of the 'containers' group on GitHub/Red Hat.
