• deathmetal27@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They’re not compatible

    This is what concerns me. ARM could dominate the market because almost everyone would develop apps supporting it and leave RISC-V behind. It could become like Itanium vs AMD64 all over again.

    • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      Well right now most people develop apps supporting x86 and leaves everything else behind. If they’re supporting x86 + arm, maybe adding riscv as a third option would be a smaller step than adding a second architecture