I don't understand the hype for RISC-V at all. It's an instruction set that would... just require a new backend for clang/gcc/Java and mean nothing to me unless somebody makes something that just obliterates a Ryzen.
Why should developers care? We barely have a decent ARM ecosystem after years of ARM routers and Raspberry Pi. Now we are supposed to be enthusiastic we will do that yet again for RISC-V?
Is it because it's somehow more open? But ARM wasn't that closed afaik - lost of folks produced it.
And Sun Microsystems open sourced a 64 thread CPU, the OpenSparc and nothing happened.
Why should developers care? We barely have a decent ARM ecosystem after years of ARM routers and Raspberry Pi. Now we are supposed to be enthusiastic we will do that yet again for RISC-V?
Is it because it's somehow more open? But ARM wasn't that closed afaik - lost of folks produced it.
And Sun Microsystems open sourced a 64 thread CPU, the OpenSparc and nothing happened.
So, in a nutshell, why?