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Hm, not sure how it supposed to work. For the absolute majority of devs hardware is abstracted away behind the thick walls of IDE/editors, VMs/runtumes, and OS
by brokenkebab 5y ago
Hm, not sure how it supposed to work. For the absolute majority of devs hardware is abstracted away behind the thick walls of IDE/editors, VMs/runtumes, and OS APIs (especially true for JVM, and js hosted PLs such as Clojure) and neither care that much, nor contribute to layers of software important for CPU market.
- mirekrusin 5y agoSimplified it goes like: devs are using macOS -> macOS moves to 100% ARM in relatively short time -> devs prefer same deployment architecture -> cloud providers don't mind (because it has higher shit done/coal burnt rate) -> intel has a problem. To rephrase - I believe that "what developers use" is _underestimated_ proxy of "what world will soon use".
- seancorfield 5y agoLook at the 2020 survey and you'll see macOS has lost ground. Both Linux and Windows+WSL have gained ground. I know several folks who've switched from macOS to either Linux or Windows+WSL (I'm in the latter group -- after being an Apple customer since the early '90s: so I've already gone through two chipset migrations with Apple).
- fulafel 5y agoA lot of shops are more heterogeneous, with mixed linux/windows/mac usage. One change I can think of is that arm macs can't run the same docker images. But all dev tooling has been ported ages ago by the linux-on-arm community.