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by zapita 9y ago
I think you're right. CoreOS never made the transition from technology and community leader to a sustainable enterprise business. I think Docker has made that transition. They are at a completely different stage than CoreOS and facing
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by zapita 9y ago
I doubt CoreOS has any meaningful revenue (my guess is they are between $5M and $10M of recurring annual revenue). I also doubt they have a single customer that isn't either A. already a Red Hat customer, or B. too small to be interest
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by zapita 9y ago
Linuxkit: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit
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by zapita 9y ago
Why is that? They seem to be at very different stages.
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by zapita 9y ago
> Craftsmanship is a lost art form these days. In my experience, that is not equally true everywhere in the world. It's certainly very true in the USA. In my opinion that's partly because college and trade schools are so expe
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by zapita 9y ago
Sure, but then the burden is on you to build the Lua-specific tooling and framework around that. Pretty quickly it becomes a bespoke platform which, although fun to build, is rarely an economically sound investment.
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by zapita 9y ago
Yes please, Lua support would be amazing. Such an under-appreciated and under-utilized language in backend development.
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by zapita 9y ago
The person you're replying to clearly is willing to put in effort, but requires a minimum of guidance from the maintainers of the project. That's perfectly reasonable, and your passive-aggressive response is not justified.