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m132today at 2:34 AM4 repliesview on HN

Every time I see Apple flaunting Linux containers I can hardly consider it as anything but admitting defeat. It could easily be Darwin, if they still had the capacity.


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groundzeros2015today at 2:51 AM

Just change 30 years of internet history

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tw04today at 2:53 AM

What is the alternative? They gave up the server market a decade ago and before that they barely actually supported it.

If they were to support darwin containers, what would be the point? Literally nobody would build to it, Linux won.

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ahknighttoday at 2:51 AM

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TheDongtoday at 3:01 AM

Apple set itself up for defeat in the server and developer marketplace as soon as they decided macOS was proprietary code.

Why would any serious developer use closed-source code they can't debug and modify? Especially for a production server?

It's the same reason no serious developers or hackers use macOS, like part of the point of being a developer is being able to dig into the code at any layer and debug and fix things.

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