@nixCraft #Virtualization & #Containerization is key...

I've seen a lot of "Forget #docker, use #wasi for #containerization!" (#webassembly), and I am deeply amused by this generation's reinvention of #bytecode and the "write once, run anywhere" paradigm. I expect it to go about as well as the last time (#jvm), i.e. stacking layers of abstractions, until people complain it is too slow and complex, while discovering a myriad of security problems (new code, old problems), before it collapses and we get the NextBigThing™ that is sooo *obviously* better.

Linux Fu: Docking Made Easy

https://hackaday.com/2022/06/21/linux-fu-docking-made-easy/

#containerization #SoftwareHacks #LinuxHacks #docker #linux

An analysis on the issues with "containerized environments":
"All of [#flatpak, #snap, #appimage on #Linux] are essentially building an entire OS on top of another OS just to avoid the challenges of #backwards #compatibility. In doing so, they create far more #problems than they solve. [...] Mass #containerization and alternate runtimes cannot possibly be the #future of #desktop apps on Linux. If this is really the direction it’s going, the future will be so #shitty that we’ll all end up back on #macOS or #Windows."
https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future