> Just like any tool that doesn't offer more than an abstraction layer over OS features, eventually it becomes irrelevant as OS tooling improves
You'd think. But I think what we're seeing here is the opposite side of the coin flip of that thread that smug idiots like to continually link here where people were saying Dropbox could be implemented in a day using basic Linux tools. Those people in the thread were always correct (I mean, this is "Hacker" news, so people will approach every problem with their hammer... shocking).
Dropbox just happened to get lucky. Docker, not so much. Both have serious competitors, including Google.
You'd think. But I think what we're seeing here is the opposite side of the coin flip of that thread that smug idiots like to continually link here where people were saying Dropbox could be implemented in a day using basic Linux tools. Those people in the thread were always correct (I mean, this is "Hacker" news, so people will approach every problem with their hammer... shocking).
Dropbox just happened to get lucky. Docker, not so much. Both have serious competitors, including Google.