Whalebrew

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SHOW HN2017

11points
1comments
#1,694of 2,242 in 2017
Top 76%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

Objections

  • Some tools assume they can run commands in the PATH, so they don't work, such as parallel and watch

    From 1 comment
    • One step further towards my goal of having nothing installed on my laptop except Docker. It doesn't quite work with everything – things like `parallel` and `watch` assume they…
      bfirsh on HN
  • Booting a container takes a few hundred milliseconds, so speed-sensitive tools don't work well

    From 1 comment
    • One step further towards my goal of having nothing installed on my laptop except Docker. It doesn't quite work with everything – things like `parallel` and `watch` assume they…
      bfirsh on HN

Requests

  • Maker asked for package requests

    From 1 comment
    • One step further towards my goal of having nothing installed on my laptop except Docker. It doesn't quite work with everything – things like `parallel` and `watch` assume they…
      bfirsh on HN

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