It targets a broader set of items then that (I'd describe as static type, GC, fast to compile / run language?).
I've noticed the issue of big deploy sizes with docker including with interpreted and other big package languages (Java can haul around a ton + JVM etc). It's somewhat hard to get small container sizes even for a simple hello world program with these approaches.
Folks are doing 15MB docker images for Go. Google likes really stripped down things (low attack surface etc) - see their distroless initiative.
I've noticed the issue of big deploy sizes with docker including with interpreted and other big package languages (Java can haul around a ton + JVM etc). It's somewhat hard to get small container sizes even for a simple hello world program with these approaches.
Folks are doing 15MB docker images for Go. Google likes really stripped down things (low attack surface etc) - see their distroless initiative.