top | item 27012876

(no title)

speedplane | 4 years ago

> I don't think that being able to replace a library at runtime is a useful enough feature to justify the high maintenance cost of shared libraries.

We’re moving to a world where every program is containerized or sandboxed. There is no more real “sharing” of libraries, everything gets “statically linked” in a Docker image anyway.

discuss

order

pjc50|4 years ago

I bet someone will invent shared content for Docker containers in the next few years as a disk-saving measure.

codegladiator|4 years ago

That's called volume mounts and/or base images ?

Glavnokoman|4 years ago

In the cloud. Otherwise it is very seldom justified.

littlecranky67|4 years ago

Not using Docker, but Snap/Flatpak use similar approaches.