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by pmontra 2268 days ago
Maybe backend developers for Intel Linux servers will fire up a VM on AWS/Azure/Google and work there.

There will be some cross platform compatibility issues. Interpreted languages hide the CPU (think Python, Ruby, Node) but their extensions in C could need some extra work that not all of them require now.

On the other side there will be the rise of the ARM servers. Apple is notoriously not interested in running server farms for their customers but I expect that the big cloud providers will start offering ARM servers.

It could be the x86 developers to have to fire up an ARM VM on the cloud to be able to work in ARM Macs heavy teams.
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scarface74 2268 days ago
Packages with native dependencies already require a recompile to run between Windows and Linux. Right now, I write Python scripts on a Windows laptop, push the changes and the build server (well actually a Linux Docker container using AWS CodeBuild) builds and deploys the package to Linux servers.

Apple already has an x86 build chain that cross compiled to ARM.

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