> But on the other hand, is a dependency on having Docker available really worse for portability than having a dependency on having a reasonably standard Unix e

> But on the other hand, is a dependency on having Docker available really worse for portability than having a dependency on having a reasonably standard Unix environment? I often need to run it somewhere other than docker -- possibly integrating it into a different program. Docker doesn't make this impossible, but it's a sign that portability was not considered when the code was written, and I'm in for pain.