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Re:Overview of cross-architecture portability problems by rqtwteye on Monday September 23, 2024 @04:03PM (#41629889)
I am for portability but if you decide to go that route, you need to do a ton of testing on different platforms to make sure it really works. That definitely costs time and effort. There are a lot of ways to do it wrong.
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Re:Overview of cross-architecture portability problems by DanielHB on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @08:38AM (#41635858)
Even setting up your automated tests on multiple platforms can cost a ton of money on CI infra alone. Besides increased server costs some architectures cost a lot more to rent on cloud-CI systems (cough macOS) and setting up the local infra to run tests on-prem can be a huge endeavor and each new platform added has fixed costs.

Nevermind your cloud CI randomly dropping support for one of your archs.

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