Alpine’s use of musl means only the truly insane would be leaping to its defense. The inability to support DNS over TCP was a problem for years. Outside of that, so many things presuppose glibc. It’s an endless source of weird.

It doesn’t make the news cause it’s a hobby os that was made important when we decided the size of the container mattered most.

NAND is like pennies/GB. I seriously don't understand the musl thing. It has caused me endless headaches and drives me up a wall.

Memory is not cheap in the cloud nor is bandwidth, so optimizing for image/container size is quite cost effective.

Also every headache I've had with musl libc is because glibc is insane, not because there is a problem with musl. It should be trivial to swap out your standard library, as that is the entire point of dynamic loading. Yet you cannot actually swap out the dynamic library that nearly every program on your system will need, because it's not actually a library.

People often forget that bandwidth is time. A significant fraction of redeploy time for me is docker images, and that's using alpine base images. It would be (was) far worse with something else.