Docker or containers in general provide isolation too, not just declarative image generation, it's all neatly packaged into one tool that isn't that heavy on the system either, it's not a cop out at all.
If I could choose, not for laziness, but for reproducibility and compatibility, I would only package software in 3 formats:
Nix package
Container image
Flatpak
The rest of the native packaging formats are all good in their own way, but not as good. Some may have specific use cased that make them best like Appimage, soooo result...Yeah, no universal packaging format yet
First off, big respect to the author for taking on this endeavour and procuring themselves permanent scars in the process.
Second of all, I will hide back in my cave, thanks
When they said that it wouldn't be a "get off my lawn" post, I was like "oh no, it's 100% going to be that", but then I read, sympathised and... I'd actually offer to get the people in the examples off the author's lawn on their behalf, because they were just so disappointing.
Though, to be fair, this was pretty much a problem in the superficiality of the frontend development circle that maybe was taught just that from the beginning, so they conflate notions of computer science with the language they use most, because there was no formality in their approach to learning, which is sort of a good thing IMO, because it's way more effective at making you productive fast and knowing where to put your hands. Just that, after that, one shouldn't pretend to have the understanding necessary to pronounce on topics they actually haven't dug into, they, as I, and anyone for that matter, should delve into them first to know what they'll be talking about.What the author identifies as "developer disconnect" I think is ultimately a product of the popularisation of coding beyond the academic setting, when you learn on your own, you can have several holes at the base of your knowledge, holes that would be glaring to someone that took a more standard path to learning, but that weren't limiting enough to impede their advancement and that is hardly ever addressable, because still, when you're on your own, you have the (blessed) choice to skip everything you don't care about, until you need it at least, if you ever do
Yes, there is no way to know for sure unless someone reported the activity on the website to porkbun and somehow their identity had to be exposed, I don't even know if that's possible.It's just highly unlikely, I could make the wording fit that, actually
I think you're misunderstanding, I'm of your same idea, I'm saying that it is not Microsoft, exactly because, as you say, it's all redacted and registered through porkbun, which isn't the registrar they usually use, I also couldn't see it as a covert operation sponsored by Microsoft because Codeberg is frankly no threat to them at all, so it wouldn't warrant spending any money on this publicity stunt (even though I personally support it against GitHub, but I'm just being realistic here)
The image is very high persfonmance