Re:Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
by eecc on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:12AM
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Well, I do hope that in this case the “intolerant minority” will drive cross-compilation and platform independence of code. It would be sad - and in the long term unsuccessful - if it just Balkanized the development landscape.
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Yeah it's quite fortunate that just as everyone is dropping x86 32 bit support, aarch64 comes along and prevents the ecosystem from hardcoding x86_64 too much. It makes sure that the computing landscape doesn't assume too much about the arch.