I use Alpine as my daily driver on desktops, and in production on bare metal servers (and in production VMs). musl libc is much easier to debug and understand,

I use Alpine as my daily driver on desktops, and in production on bare metal servers (and in production VMs). musl libc is much easier to debug and understand, which pays off in spades regardless of compatibility with broken (i.e. non-portable) programs. The system is exceptionally stable and reliable, which I care about very much. It's also simple, in that it does everything I ask it to, and nothing I don't ask it to. I can fit the entire system in my head. I use Vim as my editor, and yes, programmers who value bloated, un-Unixy tools like VSCode will not find the system accomodating.