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It's ludicrous to assume that anybody has $2000 to spend on fantasy hardware. It's month of disposable income outside of the SV bubble. Better question might b

It's ludicrous to assume that anybody has $2000 to spend on fantasy hardware. It's month of disposable income outside of the SV bubble. Better question might be, how many of the most common open source projects are managed by volunteers in their spare time? These will not build for ARM, unless there is a free tool doing it automatically for them. Currently GitHub + travis/circle can do for x64 on every push to master.

core-questions 6y ago
You don't need a cluster of them, one $50 machine is enough for home use. Travis et. al. will be buying those 96-core Marvell ARM machines and plowing through builds.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  Do they run their own metal? I thought they were on AWS.
  - duskwuff 6y ago
    Well, if they are, that makes things even easier -- Amazon has offered ARM instances since 2018 [1]. [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powere...
    - rbanffy 6y ago
      I think they have both. They offer POWER and LinuxONE as options and those aren't available in your average cloud provider. They probably have a sweet deal with IBM Cloud. I'd love to have a POWER and an IBM LinuxONE in my shed, but that's not going to happen. Maybe the POWER, but the Z most likely not.