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> It seems that the author doesn’t own an ARM machine, and therefore can’t test implementation and so doesn’t want to support it. Tangential (since he answered

• cesarb 3y ago
  > but in this era of cheap cloud instances, I'd be surprised if "not owning a <blank>" is any hindrance to support. When you own a device, it doesn't cost you more (other than electricity) if you take longer while playing with it, and there's no extra cost (other than space) to having it ready to be used when necessary. When you rent a cloud instance, there's a direct monetary cost for every extra minute you take while investigating an issue, and it's less guaranteed that it'll be available when you need it. Or, to put it more simply: unless he has his own personal device to play with, he'll have to spend extra money for every issue he investigates and every change he makes to the ARM support.
  • burntsushi 3y ago
    Yes, exactly. There is a ton of friction.