Docker would probably diverge less from LXC, because it was first built on LXC and only later got its own low level implementation using namespaces and the othe

Docker would probably diverge less from LXC, because it was first built on LXC and only later got its own low level implementation using namespaces and the other low-level things. Hard to say if the alternative world would have been better or worse, a lot of LXC/LXD implementation details seem more technically competent than Docker.