Comment by zelly

I was thinking about something like this for build systems. Everything in Docker is regular Linux. I get why Docker is so big for its use case as cloud deployments, but what I actually want from it is such a small piece of it. Hermetic, reproducible builds that produce the same binary on the same kernel release. No dependency hell because the dependencies are all part of the same build. (I know Bazel has a lot of this already.) The Docker solution of pulling in an entire distro is overkill, and it doesn't even solve the problem because dependencies are just downloaded from the package manager.