Alpine uses musl, which has on a few occasions led to weird and hard to reproduce bugs. Even though using musl saves a few megabytes of bloat, IMO it's not wort

Alpine uses musl, which has on a few occasions led to weird and hard to reproduce bugs. Even though using musl saves a few megabytes of bloat, IMO it's not worth the headaches. Especially since some of the "bloat" in glibc is highly performant inline assembly. Plus if you're consistent about using an alternative base imagine like the slim debian/ubuntu ones, the extra storage should be more or less a constant