ARM Mac Impact on Intel

Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by vbezhenar on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:20AM (#23598519)

I agree about Java. I'm using Windows to write Java but deploy on Linux and it works. I used to deploy on Itanium and also on some IBM Power with little-endian and I never had any issues with Java. It's very cross-platform.

Another example is android apps development. Most developers use x86_64 CPU and run emulator using intel android image. While I don't have vast experience, I did write few apps and never had any issue because of arch mismatch.

High level languages mostly solved that issue.

Also note that there are some ARM laptops in the wild already. You can either use Windows or Linux. But I don't see that every cloud or android developer hunting for that laptop.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by ravedave5 on Monday June 22, 2020 @12:00PM (#23601696)

It works until it doesn't. We had issues where classes were loaded in a different order on linux causing issues that we could not repro on windows.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by MaxBarraclough on Monday June 22, 2020 @12:33PM (#23602170)

Interesting, but in that case you changed OS rather than changing CPU ISA, so not quite the same thing.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by mark-r on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:33PM (#23603070)

No, it's exactly the same thing. The more variables you change, the harder it will be to debug a problem.

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