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Containerisation is a clever technology, but I can't help feeling it's a capitulation; an admission that the compatibility problem was just too hard for us to s
by robinsonb5 4y ago
Containerisation is a clever technology, but I can't help feeling it's a capitulation; an admission that the compatibility problem was just too hard for us to solve.
It's undeniably useful and pragmatic, but its existence should be a source of shame, a constant reminder that we failed.
- cpach 4y agoA thought that just popped up in my head: I wonder how a priest would react if someone came to the confessional to talk about Docker and the Open Container Initiative (:
- wwarner 4y agoI think of it exactly the opposite way. Containers show that an extremely high degree of compatibility has been achieved. Think about it, you can run new software, on an unrelated distro, even a newer distro that wasn’t planned when the host distro was created, because they all conform to the Linux ABI.