[vacri]

Response to exactly that idea from one of these guys: "Why do you need docker to just build an executable?"

[Torgo]

Deterministic builds. Isolating shitty build scripts from my system.

[eropple]

I don't. But it helps make a straightforward deployable of highly coupled libraries and tools in a way that's more comprehensible to other people.

But I'll get off your lawn now.

[vacri]

Ain't my lawn; I consider myself a mid-range sysadmin. I stepped out of support and into sysadmin land about 4 years ago. But I know some 'from-the-birth-of-linux' guys, who live and breathe this stuff in a way I never will. When I get home from staring at terminals, I want to watch movies and play video games, not swear at something on a breadboard :)