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Re:Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "com... by lyeager on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @07:04PM (#39623443)
Re:Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "com... by NilsIRL on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @10:51PM (#39624880)
That's really cool. I didn't know about that. Thanks for sharing.

There's a few things that seem to make it unsuitable for the intended use case of dockerc:

* The container extracts itself which means there is quite a bit of overhead for large images. dockerc-built executables have the same startup time whether the image is 2.2GB or 25MB.

* The executables produced by enroot don't seem suitable for running standalone. At least the example doesn't seem to suggest so.