Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs
by nine_k on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:44AM
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Many people use macbooks as glorified terminals to run a text editor and a browser, while running the actual program being developed on a remote Linux machine.
Even more people use macbooks to develop for the browser, or to develop using platform-independent languages: Python, Ruby, Node, maybe even golang.
Quite a few people then package their backend code in a container and test it in a Linux VM which "Docker for Mac" helpfully provides.
But indeed the fact that Macs used to run on Intel, so the libraries you used in development were mostly that same versions of the same code as in production, must have been helping.
Even more people use macbooks to develop for the browser, or to develop using platform-independent languages: Python, Ruby, Node, maybe even golang.
Quite a few people then package their backend code in a container and test it in a Linux VM which "Docker for Mac" helpfully provides.
But indeed the fact that Macs used to run on Intel, so the libraries you used in development were mostly that same versions of the same code as in production, must have been helping.