Tbh I feel that all this everything version pinned and containerized ultimately is inducing lot of fragility in the ecosystem, and makes it more and more difficult to work with wide range of tools. Reminds me of smalltalk images in one way, and in other way of one enterprise gig I did where using some ancient IBM IDE and runtime was required because the project setup was too crusty to trust it to work any other way.
I long for the opportunity where the software I develop would work with plain vanilla Debian stable and would require nothing else.
I agree. Dev containers solve the wrong problem. (Works on my machine dev environments). Its always fun and easy to sell someone that you need to develop a layer that will solve all problems, but the underlying problem is the one we actually need to solve.
I long for the opportunity where the software I develop would work with plain vanilla Debian stable and would require nothing else.