Additionally, when you have languages with rich library ecosystems, the OS kind of becomes irrelevant, the platform is the language ecosystem.
Just to pick Go as an example (not to be lost discussing VMs and such), it doesn't matter if I am targeting bare metal, Linux, Windows, IBM z/OS, AWS special cloud runtime, whatever.
As long as the Go code is the same, and someone has done the low level runtime support, it is a compile away and done.
Finally by pushing containers no matter what, the Linux community has made this even easier.
What if there's another software in another language you want to interoperate with? What if you want to avoid containers with their complexity and dubious security record?
Just to pick Go as an example (not to be lost discussing VMs and such), it doesn't matter if I am targeting bare metal, Linux, Windows, IBM z/OS, AWS special cloud runtime, whatever.
As long as the Go code is the same, and someone has done the low level runtime support, it is a compile away and done.
Finally by pushing containers no matter what, the Linux community has made this even easier.
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