[wongarsu]

In the past, one of often cited reasons for the lack of success of ARM server offerings was that every developer machine is x64, no software is ever tested on ARM and no dev has a machine to do so. As the Raspberry Pi got more performant it brought a lot of people running software on ARM, leading to lots of software publishing ARM builds, toolchains getting exercised, bugs ironed out, etc.

[kefabean]

With Apple having moved to Arm there are definitely ecosystem benefits brewing too. I can run a Debian VM out of the box with UTM, compile an Arm64 package using standard Linux toolchain and have it run directly on a RPi. It's like having a supercharged RPi development environment with me all the time.