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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012) by ReactiveJelly on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:08PM (#23883930)
Technically containers are not VMs

And re: build systems for interpreted languages, what would the alternative be?

Asking Firefox and Chrome to integrate a language they didn't design?

Making it a runtime module like MoonScript, and letting everyone who loads the page pay for compilation, on battery-constrained computers, millions of times over?

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012) by EE84M3i on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:29PM (#23884092)
>Technically containers are not VMs

Some build systems do build proper VM images, like AMIs.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012) by rumanator on Saturday July 18, 2020 @08:49PM (#23886070)
You're talking about a cloud service provider, whose bread and butter is selling you time on their VMs. Of course they manage machine images.
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