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> for most web development this just won’t matter My comment wasn't about most web development, it was specific to using Docker images between platforms. I ge
by ogre_codes 6y ago
> for most web development this just won’t matter
My comment wasn't about most web development, it was specific to using Docker images between platforms.
I getting paid to do this, I don't want to screw with guessing games about whether a particular bug is platform specific or not. I already do this to a much smaller extent with Mac vs Linux development.
There are a fair number of web development jobs I would be willing to risk jumping architectures on, for example right now we do react development which leans almost entirely on node.js and I'm cautiously optimistic that'll be a fairly transparent hop since it runs entirely on JS.
- icedchai 6y agoYeah, my comment was that many, many (not all) images for most development use cases will be fine. With the popularity of the Raspberry Pi and other ARM SBCs there are tons of ARM images. If you don't believe me, look on hub.docker.com. Many, many base images are already supported.
- ogre_codes 6y agoYeah, I'm kind of coming around to this actually. Support for ARM is better than I thought and I suspect with Apple going this way, Linux ARM and Docker portability between ARM & x86 is going to get a huge shot in the arm (pun intended). I'm less skeptical than I was, particularly if you wait 18 months before pulling the trigger.