Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop...
by wrsh07 on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:20PM
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All of the predictions / claims except for (1) seem very incorrect to me
At the big corps that I've worked, my laptop is just a client to the machine that hosts the code & does the builds (that machine has been a giant Linux desktop & an ec2 instance)
We already see Apple chips in ec2. Today it's ostensibly "rent a machine to run your test suite" (although iiuc there's a 24h minimum rental), but I don't see any reason why it won't eventually be "just run your server on an apple cloud instance on ec2" (or develop locally in a container and deploy to that)
Software is actually reducing the friction of deploying to a different machine than you develop on, and the proliferation of high end custom chips isn't going to change that
At the big corps that I've worked, my laptop is just a client to the machine that hosts the code & does the builds (that machine has been a giant Linux desktop & an ec2 instance)
We already see Apple chips in ec2. Today it's ostensibly "rent a machine to run your test suite" (although iiuc there's a 24h minimum rental), but I don't see any reason why it won't eventually be "just run your server on an apple cloud instance on ec2" (or develop locally in a container and deploy to that)
Software is actually reducing the friction of deploying to a different machine than you develop on, and the proliferation of high end custom chips isn't going to change that