Comment by 0x457

IMO only good thing about alpine is that it's a good environment to build stuff that links musl statically.

Never understood why Alpine is used to actually run anything in a container - if you statically link binary, then you don't need alpine as a base and if you don't what is the point? Don't @ me about image size, even without layer caching we're talking about tiny difference that is often dwarfed by size of your runtime.

Musl itself is a great example of taking "simple and lightweight" so seriously that everyone else gets to deal with the complexity. Slow allocator, underoptimized memcpy/string routines, limited locale support, no NSS, and endless glibc compatibility headaches.

But hey, at least libc is small. %%Proceeds to pull in megabytes of <any other>malloc, and other libraries to replace the slow parts of musl.%%

And now sshhole.com is a particularly spectacular example of what happens when "simple" meets the rest of the software ecosystem.