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Re:Run More Stuff in Docker by piaste on Sunday December 27, 2020 @03:48PM (#25554113)
A Docker container is a lot simpler to maintain than a VM, for just about any task you care to mention.

A static binary is much better than a Docker container, I agree. Unfortunately a lot of useful apps can't or won't ship as a static binary (Java, Python, PHP apps), and Docker makes them behave much more like a static binary.

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Re:Run More Stuff in Docker by pjmlp on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:16AM (#25558319)
Java can certainly be shipped as single static binary, AOT compilers exist since around 2000.

Same applies to Python bundlers like py2exe.

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