If macOS goes ARM and there's a sizable population of developers testing and fixing these issues constantly, the math changes in favor of Graviton and it would make it a no-brainer to pick the cheaper alternative once everything "just works".
If macOS goes ARM and there's a sizable population of developers testing and fixing these issues constantly, the math changes in favor of Graviton and it would make it a no-brainer to pick the cheaper alternative once everything "just works".
I've been shifting my work to ARM based machine for some years now, mainly to reduce power consumption. One of my current projects - A problem validation platform[4](Go) has been running nicely on a ARM server(Cavium ThunderX SoCs) on scaleway; but weirdly scaleway decided to quit on ARM servers[5] sighting hardware issues which not many of the ARM users seem to have faced. Only ARM specific issue I faced with scaleway was that the reboot required power-off.
[1]cudf: https://gist.github.com/heavyinfo/da3de9b188d41570f4e988ceb5...
[2]Ray: https://gist.github.com/heavyinfo/aa0bf2feb02aedb3b38eef203b...
[3]Apache Arrow: https://gist.github.com/heavyinfo/04e1326bb9bed9cecb19c2d603...
[4]needgap: https://needgap.com
[5]Scaleway ditched ARM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865925
I have a hunch our industry will need to increasingly deal with ARM environments.