I think that's mixing apples with oranges really, as containerd uses runc as well. nerdctl is a client app which speaks to containerd, which is a long running

I think that's mixing apples with oranges really, as containerd uses runc as well. nerdctl is a client app which speaks to containerd, which is a long running daemon. podman uses a different architecture (no long running daemon) Both projects use runc to actually launch the containers.