Statically compiled portable binaries will replace containers. Maybe not, but one can dream at least. What do we need containers for, if we can build a servic

Statically compiled portable binaries will replace containers. Maybe not, but one can dream at least. What do we need containers for, if we can build a service in a binary that you can throw on any Linux of the past 20 years and it just starts to serve network requests? What do we need to support other platforms if the server world is one big Linux monoculture and the next best platforms are just a cross-compile away? Why wouldn't I compile everything statically if containers don't share libraries anyway?