I don't see your point. Kubernetes may be awfully complicated and the wrong solution all along (which, unforntunatelly, doesn't mean it'll die quickliy — C++ wa

I don't see your point. Kubernetes may be awfully complicated and the wrong solution all along (which, unforntunatelly, doesn't mean it'll die quickliy — C++ was always pretty awful), Nix may be as well, but their actual point is to help your sanity, not "save up a few megabytes of space". "There are other solutions"? Well, look, well defined, easily reproducible, immutable environment configurable by text files is something that pretty much everybody wants, even if he never even thought about concepts like this. I mean, literally, your grandma would want it on her iPad, because it would mean you could buy her a new iPad and she couldn't see the difference aside from the fact the glass is not broken anymore. Every programmer wants it, because it would free them from that awful system administrator hegemony. I want it, because getting a new laptop that I plan to use for slightly different purposes than my current hardware, instead of building up my environment from scratch gradually installing more and more shit I forgot years ago even exists, I could review a couple of 200-line config files (which I possibly didn't even write myself, the system just managed to express in a well-readable format what I got by experimenting in the shell years ago), remove some lines, add a couple of others, and get exactly what I want on that laptop. And we don't really want any tradeoffs here. Yeah, as a real rock'n'rollers we want a fucking lot, but that's the point, we want to find some way to make all problems caused by the complexity of making lots of software and hardware work together disappear. Yet, I don't see this ultimate dream come true on every — be it real or virtual — device, for every purpose. So be it the problem of marketing, or the "other solutions" being a bit more of a tradeoff than we are ready to accept, or something else, but these "other solutions" don't seem to do as much of a good job as you imply. So, my understanding is that we are just "not there yet". Hence "all these technologies popping up left and right, switching names, dying abruptly, getting super-seeded or hacked with vulnerabilities". There is a dream, maybe even a vision, but there is no solution. Not that I'm aware of. (And, once more, the real solution is not just something that is "possibly possible", but also includes solving the problem of user-adoption.)