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Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?

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Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?

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Post by mitchpron » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 7:27 PM UTC

Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?
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Re: Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?

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Post by thecupisblue » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 7:40 PM UTC

Just a sidenote, a part of this article reminded me of the RFC2110 - The naming of hosts, an old april fools RFC.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2100

Re: Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?

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Post by icedchai » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 10:49 PM UTC

I wondered this myself 2 years ago and went with fat binaries (uber jars, actually.) Unfortunately fat binaries aren't an option for many languages...

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