• nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Yeah, all of mine are usually just there to spit out binaries to use locally and alert me to any new dependencies slipping by. I once worked at a company that would ship web apps with databases that only ran in a container so that they could make each layer of its image a migration. It made CI take upwards of 40 minutes for just regular PR builds.

    And then there’s people who are just allergic to containers. If you want me to work on your C project, I’m not leaving dev libraries lying around or wondering why something works on my system and not on others. I’m building a Dockerfile that has only what should be needed to build and feeding make through a container and volume binding the output.

    Edit: I hate flatpak and snap so much actually lol. Most of the Dockerfiles I write are just building apps from source that don’t distribute any other way. I’ll even accept AppImages, but if you make me use flatpak, I will not hesitate to start building from source.