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To be fair, what didn't work for Nylas might well not be an issue for others. There's definitely more than one way to skin a cat, especially in the Python world.

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Seriously, their #1 reason for not using Docker amounts to "we couldn't be bothered to update our kernel." This reads to me more of an interesting story about how they chose to solve the problem rather than a serious recommendation of how things should be done.

I don't think that's a fair representation of why they don't want to update kernels and also completely downplays that there were three other points mentioned which all added non trivial overhead to getting stuff done now.

In an ideal world you build a system from the ground up, but rarely is that ever possible and the approach taken to iterate is far more valuable than your requested 'serious' recommendation.

Seriously, your #1 complaint about their reasons not to use Docker amounts to "I couldn't be bothered to read past the first dot point".

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