[drdexebtjl]

I don’t have counter examples, but hear me out.

What if this hegemony in ISAs is partially because of the high costs of porting software and toolchains?

Maybe the next generation of embedded devices will have ISAs that are, say, extremely optimized for real time industrial controllers, but terrible at compiling C++.

It seems a little silly to give up on cross-compilation just because _today_ everything runs on ARM.

Especially because cross-compilation is not a particularly hard problem, the problem is with decades of tooling assuming the build and target environments are the same.

[nrdvana]

Well, I'd say cross-compiling is at least a little problematic... if nothing else, it is a hurdle to running automated tests. And cross-compiling still needs to exist for the people building the package repositories. I'm just sort of advocating that if you have limited amounts of time but want to put together a system image to run in an embedded or embedded-adjacent manner, the least pain / most agile solution is by building on top of a popular binary distro and then using native compilation on appropriate hardware inside a chroot or container that resembles the target.