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And, most importantly: Many server-side languages don't compile to x86 / x64! They are either interpreted, or compile to bytecode!

And speaking of x64...

> It's why x86 won. Do you really think the world has changed radically?

No, x86 is loosing to x64. And at some point another instruction set will supplant x64.

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x86 didn't "lose" to x86-64, it just extended the 20 year compatibility story that goes all the way back to the 386.

Intel tried "another instruction set" (Itanium) and nearly lost the market to AMD (AMD64)

Intel also had KNC instruction set (AVX512-like) on Xeon Phi (these CPUs available on PCI cards). They abandoned it in favour of good old x86. One of important factors was the difficulties related to tooling, especially necessity of cross-compilation.

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