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by yoden 1541 days ago
History repeats itself.

Before people thought Java would save everyone from ever having to think about native dependencies. Turned out not so much, although it works "OK" for desktop these days.

Now everyone thinks Docker is going to save everyone from having to think about native dependencies. In a few years everyone will realize that Docker only works like that when deploying from linux to linux on the same CPU architecture.