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1. Anything that offers effective competition to Kubernetes is a Good Thing. I'm not saying this is because I haven't look at it closely enough but competition brings about improvement.

2. Why do people write "Simplenetes has a 100x less code than Kubernetes" instead of saying it has 1/100th the code?

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But you don't understand. 100x less code than k8s means that using it must reduce my own codebase by 99 million lines of code! Who wouldn't want that?

why is that a perceived benefit

By contrast, Kubernetes has at least 1000x more developers working on it

Don't you mean "1/1000th less" developers working on it?

1000x developers sounds like a huge red flag.

It’s way too complex already.

It’s tens of thousands of times as many contributors.

For comparison, IIRC WebKit had like 500 contributors as of five or six years ago.

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