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by still_grokking 1101 days ago
TL;DR: It's slow and has all kinds of issues. If all you want is small containers use Distroless.

Musl is still a kind of experiment. I would not recommend running experiments in production…

Just a few random links:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/benchmarking-debian-vs-alpine...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28312433

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/musl-libc-alpines-greatest-we...

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/92

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/mu...

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/729342/performance-...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/70108

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080290

https://vector.dev/highlights/2020-07-09-add-musl-and-glibc-...

There are more. Much more of those!

Musl exist in large parts just for ideological reasons. It still rides some hype in industry as industry hates GPL software…

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Thanks for the links. I'm just an hobbyist, but Alpine is often marketed as being great for containers. Interesting to see another perspective