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Dependency hell and polluting the system IS the problem. Ideally, we would have statically built self-contained executables, and OS would offer sandboxing (proc

Dependency hell and polluting the system IS the problem. Ideally, we would have statically built self-contained executables, and OS would offer sandboxing (process, network, filesystem) out of the box. Containers at the moment are just lightweight VMs, and a better workaround to the problem (better especially in regard to UX; VMs isolation is still superior to cgroups/namespaces on Linux).

nurple 3y ago
The Linux OS literally provides sandboxing, we call the set of technologies that provide this "containers". "Containers" are not lightweight VMs; VMs are a virtualized computer, containers are a virtualized kernel. Statically linked everything is ridiculous and will never be the future of software deployment.