> Doing this across different Linux distributions is inherently prone to failure.

Sure if you just take binaries from one distro that link with libraries on that distro and try and run it on a different one... But that's not what we're doing. All of our TCL modules are either portable binaries (e.g. commercial software) or compiled from source.

> Honestly, it sounds like you just don't understand these systems and how they work.

I do, but well done for being patronising.

> TCL modules aren't better than containers,

They are better for our use case.

> this is like comparing apples and organgutans.

If apples and orangutans were potential solutions to a single problem why couldn't you compare them?