[bmalehorn]

Cool, thanks for sharing. It's these kind of experiences that I was hoping to gather from making this post.

Did you notice at the end that you did NOT end up choosing ARM? You ended up going with x86_64 because that's what made more sense for your backend. That's part of my point - developers should choose their backend architecture based on the performance and pricing of their backend, not their development laptop. And if that decision is "we should keep using x86", then there will be a big performance hit in development.

[pjmlp]

Back in the UNIX glory days, I was responsible for keeping a software stack running across Windows NT (later 2000), Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, each with its own CPU architecture.

This is just another CPU story, no big deal.