> (simpler abstractions of things we don't want to think about is the whole point of shared libraries), and I don't believe the industry is capable of reversing

> (simpler abstractions of things we don't want to think about is the whole point of shared libraries), and I don't believe the industry is capable of reversing course on this Far from reversing course, the industry seems to be interested in accelerating on the current one— containerization as a deployment mechanism is about doubling down on the black box-ness of binaries. Paradoxically, this doubling down on ‘the whole point’ of shared libraries is also a destructive innovation with respect to the advantages of shared libraries, because it also means surrendering the fine-grained resource sharing that shared libraries, as packaged traditionally, allow.