Sadly, when you change the architecture of your development machine’s CPU, from x86 to ARM, that’s not possible anymore. On a x86 machine, even if you’re not running Linux as desktop OS, there are multiple ways to access a Linux environment: virtual machines, Docker containers, and on Windows 10 even WSL. Having access to a development environment that’s as similar to the production one as possible is a need most developers will relate with. Chances are that you’re doing the same: in fact, Linux running on x86 chips is one of the most popular target platforms for server-side applications, if not the most popular. I primarily build web applications with back-end services that are designed to run on a x86 Linux server, mostly within a Docker container.
However, when switching our development platform to ARM, we need to look at the potential impacts on our workflows. Devices running Windows 10 on ARM, like the Surface Pro XĪRM-based CPUs have gone a long way in just few years (just compare a Raspberry Pi model 1 with the newest model 4!) and are now serious everyday development machines too.Small single-boards computers like Raspberry Pi’s (have you seen the new “PC-in-a-keyboard” Raspberry Pi 400?).
The list of devices that are now running on CPUs based on the ARM architecture, as opposed to the x86 of Intel and AMD chips, is getting longer by the day. ( Apple transitioning all Macs to Apple Silicon in these months, there’s certainly a lot of momentum for bringing ARM-based computing to consumers… and also developers.
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