The insane stability of the Linux ABI is partially what makes containers useful. The fact that containers can reliably depend on the ABI contract, thus placing

The insane stability of the Linux ABI is partially what makes containers useful. The fact that containers can reliably depend on the ABI contract, thus placing almost any clib they wish they want inside the container is fairly unique. That extreme stability of that contract is awesome for namespace decoupling. Unfortunately Apple and Microsoft do not have such stable interfaces. Remember containers are just namespaces.