Re: Developing on local FreeBSD AArch64 and deploying to FreeBSD x86_64?

From: Simon Connah <simon.n.connah_at_protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 02:12:20 UTC
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On Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 at 23:37, Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:


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> On 11/15/22 15:31, Simon Connah wrote:
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> > Hi Dave,
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> > Thank you for your reply.
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> > At the moment I'm only really looking at using Nodejs, PostgreSQL, nginx, git and vim so I doubt any of that will be affected by different CPU architectures. Having said that I am heavily interested in FreeBSD as a whole and I'd like to do some lower level work but I was going to try and wait before getting a cheap x86_64 laptop.
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> i've run and developed on both of those stacks using both amd64 and
> arm64 freebsd and have had zero issues. the only speed-bump you may hit
> would be with npm modules that are linux/win/mac only, but things have
> been getting better on that front.
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> one great thing about BSD is there is lots of overlap between
> architectures, so many things you'll learn on one cpu architecture will
> map 1-to-1 to another.
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> -pete
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> --
> Pete Wright
> pete@nomadlogic.org
> @nomadlogicLA

Thank you Pete. Much appreciated.

Simon.