I am also a hobbyist and that is actually what makes me very hopeful about RISC-V. For a non-expert like like RISC-V instruction set is actually possible to gra

I am also a hobbyist and that is actually what makes me very hopeful about RISC-V. For a non-expert like like RISC-V instruction set is actually possible to grasp. Modern ARM is getting way too complex. Depends on what you do. If you just write code in C/C++, then it doesn't matter. But if you actually like to dabble with assembly code then RISC-V actually makes that possible. It may not be as awesome to write as 68k was back in the Amiga days, but RISC-V is the closest to that which I have experienced in modern times. In particular I think RISC-V has a great potential in teaching a new generation how programming works in detail. I felt when I went into this industry that it helped being able to actually read the low level code produced by the compiler and understand it. That is getting ever more difficult. We are reaching levels of complexity where it becomes very hard to give anyway today the kind of bottom up understanding of how computers work that you could get back in the 80s and 90s.