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by drzaiusx11 85 days ago
Isn't a docker image basically a universal binary at this point? It's a way to ship a reproducible environment with little more config than setting an ENV var or two. All my local stuff runs under a docker compose stack so I have a container for the db, a container for redis, LocalStack, etc
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Is it though?

On my Mac Docker runs Linux virtualized. It’s a resource hog.

Compare that with simple native binary.

I'm not saying it's ideal, just saying that's what we've shifted to for repeatable programs. Your Linux "universal" binary certainly won't work on your Mac directly either...