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  • Do you just want to see the text content of a HTML file? - a text editor

    Do you want most, if not all, HTML tags to be rendered as pretty graphical shapes?

    Do you want the text have proper fonts?

    Styles? You need something to parse CSS files.

    What about dynamically generated content like ten smiley faces? You need a JavaScript engine.

    Do you also want to see iframes? You need it to be capable of sending XHR requests.

    What if it references to a piece of WebAssembly?

    It’s way more complicated than you anticipated.





  • What you described as the weakness, is actually what is strong of an open source system. If you compile a binary for a certain system, say Debian 10, and distribute the binary to someone who is also running a Debian 10 system, it is going to work flawlessly, and without overhead because the target system could get the dependency on their own.

    The lack of ability to run a binary which is for a different system, say Alpine, is as bad as those situations when you say you can’t run a Windows 10 binary on Windows 98. Alpine to Debian, is on the same level of that 10 to 98, they are practically different systems, only marked behind the same flag.