Oh, no, I meant that containers serve the same purpose as statically linked programs for languages that can't do that. Eg if you want to deploy a Python codebas

Oh, no, I meant that containers serve the same purpose as statically linked programs for languages that can't do that. Eg if you want to deploy a Python codebase, a container is a good way to include all dependencies. I didn't mean "containers don't have any advantages compared to statically linked programs".