I'd say that I'm excited for ARM. That doesn't mean the transition will be seamless or easy. I know that a big complaint about the move is "great, now I'm doin

I'd say that I'm excited for ARM. That doesn't mean the transition will be seamless or easy. I know that a big complaint about the move is "great, now I'm doing ARM locally and deploying to x86". I think this is a legitimate concern, for now, but I also strongly believe it is inevitable that, within the next decade, deploying to x86 in the Cloud will be as "weird" as ARM would be today. The benefits are way too numerous. Well, more accurately, I think it'll be a "I'm on Fargate, oh wow, Fargate runs on ARM, I had no idea" kind of thing. Ok, the article outlines why you may need some idea, but come on; we're talking about one line where I'm downloading the x86 version of a dependency instead of an ARM version. That's an easy fix. I don't know what this means for open accessibility of hardware. Right now, I could go buy and run locally the Intel Xeon chip powering my app in the cloud; when things move to ARM, it absolutely will be "AWS Graviton" (not sold outside AWS) or "Azure ARM Whatever" (not sold outside Azure). This sucks for accessibility, but, actually, does it? ARM enables the cloud providers to do this; they could never design their own x86 chips. As long as we're all standardized on the same ISA, and the chips generally have the same characteristics, I'm looking forward to a very bright future where vendors are now also competing against one-another in the silicon. And I may not be able to buy an AWS Graviton, but I'm sure (well, hopeful) that one day I'll be able to build an ARM desktop that isn't a Raspberry Pi. AWS will have their chips, Quallcomm has theirs, Apple has theirs, Microsoft and Google have some, and they're all competing against one another. Ok, maybe this is a pipe dream. But, I'm definitely in the short Intel camp, at least on the long-term.