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An extremely random fact I noticed when writing the companion article [1] to this (an OCaml experience report): "Docker, Guix and NixOS (stable) all had th
by avsm 7mo ago
An extremely random fact I noticed when writing the companion article [1] to this (an OCaml experience report):
"Docker, Guix and NixOS (stable) all had their first releases
during 2013, making that a bumper year for packaging aficionados."
Now we get coding agent updates every week, but has there been a similar year since 2013 where multiple great projects all came out at the same time?
[1]: https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2025-docker-icfp.pdf https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2025-docker-icfp.pdf
- esseph 7mo agoTBH I feel as if only docker belongs in that list. Guix and nix have users, sure, but not remotely like docker.
- NewJazz 7mo agoYeah they are way better than docker for packaging
- atomicnumber3 7mo agoWhy is docker used by far the most, then?
- ufocia 7mo agoLaziness
- pas 7mo agodocker got popular because it had better DX (better tooling), it was like a super lightweight VM (and initially people really wanted to put init and SSH into containers) easy but powerful, it's not just packaging, it's also a very basic deployment system too. (docker ps) and said better allowed a relatively foolproof cross-platform develop-deploy loop.
- ezst 7mo agohg and git came weeks apart and fossil shortly after if that counts