How do people use this? Is there a laptop or desktop you can buy with RISC-V hardware?
As of recently, there's also spacemiT K1, which is RVA22+V.
In the second half of this year. Milk-V Oasis is meant to show up, providing a serious jump in performance. This is 16x SiFive P670, similar to Cortex A77, faster than any ARM SBCs available.
Then RISC-V assembly will be the new C.
It is going to be a long road and a difficult one: the market is already saturated with mature micro-architectures with ISAs completely locked down with Intellectual Property and that by very few vendors. This is really hard, can still fail
Yeah, I don't think so
What is meant by this?
Note I am not OP and I do not endorse this message.
A side effect is to kiss bye bye significantly to the planned obsolescence of much system software and some computer language syntaxes.
But I do expect some programs written in assembly to show up, because it doesn't happen very often than a new, modern open ISA like RVA20/RV64GC shows up with a promise of very long term compatibility.
And because assembly is still fun, and will forever be.