• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    21 days ago

    Call me crusty, old-fart, unwilling to embrace change… but docker has always felt like a cop-out to me as a dev. Figure out what breaks and fix it so your app is more robust, stop being lazy.

    I pretty much refuse to install any app which only ships as a docker install.

    No need to reply to this, you don’t have to agree and I know the battle has been already lost. I don’t care. Hmmph.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Why put in a little effort when we can just waste a gigabyte of your hard drive instead?

      I have similar feelings about how every website is now a JavaScript application.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        Yeah, my time is way more valuable than a gigabyte of drive space. In what world is anyone’s not today?

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                21 days ago

                Don’t you get it? We’ve saved time and added some reliability to the software! It. Sure it takes 3-5x the resources it needs and costs everyone else money - WE saved time and can say it’s reliable. /S

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      21 days ago

      Docker is more than a cop out for than one use case. It’s a way for quickly deploy an app irrespective of an environment, so you can scale and rebuild quickly. It fixes a problem that used to be solved by VMs, so in that way it’s more efficient.

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        21 days ago

        Well, nope. For example, FreeBSD doesn’t support Docker – I can’t run dockerized software “irrespective of environment”. It has to be run on one of supported platforms, which I don’t use unfortunately.