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I do buy Linus' argument, you need to be able to do native development. My ARM64 development machine is a Pinebook, ARM32 a Cubietruck. Both have only 2GB of R

by rjsw 8y ago

I do buy Linus' argument, you need to be able to do native development. My ARM64 development machine is a Pinebook, ARM32 a Cubietruck. Both have only 2GB of RAM and could really do with more. At least the Cubietruck has SATA so mine has a SSD.

scarface74 8y ago
iOS developers develop on x86 computers and deploy to ARM computers all of the time. But, most developers don’t need to do native development.
sam_lowry_ 8y ago
I am pretty happy to develop on ODROID-C2 as well. But we are a minority.
pjmlp 8y ago
With rich language runtimes, as app developer I don't care if my application instance runs on top of an OS, hypervisor or just plain bare metal. The only devs that need to care about the native part are the ones writing the glue between runtime and hardware.
- rjsw 8y ago
  Somebody has to maintain the runtimes, they are not typically set up to be cross-compilable, I'm doing JVM development on my ARM systems right now.
  - pjmlp 8y ago
    Apparently you stop reading at the first sentence.
    - rjsw 8y ago
      I'm not working on "glue between runtime and hardware".
      - pjmlp 8y ago
        If you are maintaining a JVM runtime for ARM or writing JNI stuff then it looks to me you are doing just that. Otherwise you completely lost me there.