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misnome
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Why did containers happen?
Because it doesn’t need you to delve deep into the build system of every dependency and application you ever want to package?
thaumasiotes
4 months ago
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>> It let people deploy consistent version of
their software
oblio
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Surprisingly "my software" depends on a lot of other stuff. Python, Ruby, PHP, JS, etc all need tens to hundreds of native libraries that have to be deployed.
misnome
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>> …or download outside software.
theamk
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I've worked on software that linked to ffmpeg libs.
Good luck making _that_ static.
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