> That's an entire enormous segment of the industry and it's nearly 100% (or entirely 100%?) literally develop-on-x86-deploy-on-ARM.
I'm not sure I agree with. My coding environment is on x86, and I build on x86, but my Run/Debug cycle is on ARM. No one is really encouraged to test on the simulator even though it's available, you are almost entirely asked to test on your actual arm device and run it and see the results of your work.
Linus is making the argument that people want their release builds to run in the same environment as their daily test builds, and I don't see smartphone development as an exception to that rule.
I'm not sure I agree with. My coding environment is on x86, and I build on x86, but my Run/Debug cycle is on ARM. No one is really encouraged to test on the simulator even though it's available, you are almost entirely asked to test on your actual arm device and run it and see the results of your work.
Linus is making the argument that people want their release builds to run in the same environment as their daily test builds, and I don't see smartphone development as an exception to that rule.