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Almost all of those points are true of any mainstream architecture (x86, ARM aren't going anywhere, your skills are valuable today, you don't have to throw away
by aseipp 7y ago
Almost all of those points are true of any mainstream architecture (x86, ARM aren't going anywhere, your skills are valuable today, you don't have to throw away any code anytime soon, Rust works today on both) and the others ("chip of choice for AI", "defacto standard", "simplicity means less bugs") are either entirely arguable or outright naivety, they don't say anything unique. The ISA being experimented with and extensions being made is certainly an undeniable plus, though.
People on this website just hype it to outrageous levels because the ISA is all 95% of them interact with at any level, and sometimes not even then, so all other factors/considerations are completely ignored in favor of just believing it's really The Best (and I say that as someone who owns real RISC-V hardware and am writing my own emulator, and want it to succeed.)
But you don't have to just make stuff up to sell it. You can just say "It's a pretty good ISA, it's freely available/modifiable, and there's a ton of good tooling already available for it". That's a pretty good sell on its own, to be perfectly honest.
- childintime 7y ago> x86, ARM aren't going anywhere x86's have never been a thing in MCU's, so ARM has more to lose. > Almost all of those points are true of any mainstream architecture No, that isn't true at all, not when you consider the end-game: they are not open source, they are not simple enough for that to make a difference, and they'll therefore never attract the collective creativity. Maybe some other new architecture will though. Everybody should make their own bets though. > People on this website just hype it to outrageous levels Though RISC-V certainly is in the hype phase this is also entirely justified. From that point of view it seems you have an invested interest in some other architecture, and see that investment threatened.
- drudru11 7y agoJust to be clear, the ISA is open source. The design or implementation does not have to be.