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Indeed you might not, but the person that wrote your JVM does, and the person that wrote the system that runs on does, and the person that wrote GAE does... Th
by alias_neo 8y ago
Indeed you might not, but the person that wrote your JVM does, and the person that wrote the system that runs on does, and the person that wrote GAE does...
That single instance you're running on already took half a dozen or so other systems developers and more before it got to you, so in your example you're the minority.
It's because of the work they've done, that you can not care about the architecture you're running on, not in spite of them.
- stickfigure 8y agoSure, but every time you move down the stack a level, you shrink the network effect by several orders of magnitude. Linus' argument is that x86 stays on top because everyone is developing with x86 at home. It's much less convincing to argue that x86 will stay on top because the people writing JVMs use x86 at home. There just aren't that many of them, and if they get paid to write ARM, they write ARM.
- alias_neo 8y agoIndeed, but by at home he means in the office too (he says as much), and I don't see offices don't this unless they have a real incentive to throw out the hardware they've invested in, perhaps in the not so near future when they inevitably have to replace it all due to failure the arm stuff will have a chance to take some share.