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> Why can't you update the Docker image to also support ARM? You theoretically could switch your backend to run ARM Linux. However, this would take months - renting out ARM instances, re-building all repositories, and a tense switch over. I don't see why this would be so hard. If anything, I expect to see a massive upswing in things like AWS Graviton2 uptake, and a lot of common Docker images being built with ARM ver…
Didn't think of that. If running Docker is 10 times slower on ARM and virtual box doesn't support the architecture at all, this might indeed end developers using Mac.
This is ridiculous. Your code will just have to support multiple architectures, which is very easy with modern languages and tooling.
You can't run your x86 docker image on your ARM mac without emulation. You can't run your x86 Windows VM without emulation etc.
Of course there are solutions like using a remote server or a VM in the cloud, but if you're buying a decent machine then you would normally expect to be able to run these things locally.
Apple will singlehandedly make 2021 "the year of Linux on the desktop".
> Why can't you update the Docker image to also support ARM? You theoretically could switch your backend to run ARM Linux. However, this would take months - renting out ARM instances, re-building all repositories, and a tense switch over. I don't see why this would be so hard. If anything, I expect to see a massive upswing in things like AWS Graviton2 uptake, and a lot of common Docker images being built with ARM ver…
This has no chance of happening. The common cloud CI systems do not support ARM at all (travis, circle CI and co). There is only a minority of developers with macbook and the rest is not going to spend $2000 to buy one just to build some docker images.
Or, you could use already-extant Debian ARM releases and spend minutes rather than months switching over.
It will be extremely interesting to see what the dev's say with the test boxes. Curious if there's any magical fixes like switching over to ARM Linux, since the software of an image would likely be compiled for x86 I really doubt it... Perhaps this will spur some people over to running ARM servers in the cloud...
We can have the experience of developing on ARM to deploy on x86 right now with ARM workstations. A 16 core barebones costs around $700