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I'm mainly just worried about how this will affect my development environment and ability to compile linux libraries and things like homebrew apps on the command line.

I can only imagine that changing the CPU architecture will mean pretty much every tool I use is going to break and have to be fixed (or abandoned) by random open source developers slowly over the coming years.

Or am I wrong? Will this all be seamless?

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I expect this to be really painful initially, but longer term I look forward to this breaking the stranglehold that Intel currently has over our tooling as de facto standard for workstation processors.

I’m optimistic that we’ll start to see higher quality support for ARM on open source packages, which means we can deploy to RaspPis easier, ARM servers, etc.

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