Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/10/android-and-risc-v-what-you-need-to-know.html

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RegalPotoo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Very exciting - however, I spend most of my time building apps in Flutter, which is also a Google project, so I expect that it will receive RISC-V support about as the sun is burning out

Edit: looking at the bug trackers, it seems like there is actually some movement on this, so maybe my cynicism is misplaced

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Does Flutter ship binary components where the target architecture would matter?

RegalPotoo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Yeah, the flutter engine itself is shipped as a pre-built binary, and there are a few major libraries that rely on native extensions that the tooling needs to be set up to cross-compile for

hexloc@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 2y

imo, pretty exciting

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 2y

Way cool.

In my mind, RISC-V serves but one purpose: to put ARM in its place. It needs to exist to reduce the temptation for anti-competitive practices.

BrownianMotion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I miss SPARC, from Sun microsystems.

Make it happen :)

Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 2y

This seems to be a great development.

heartfelthumburger@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y

gonna be interesting to see how this pans out

happyhippo@feddit.it · 2 pts · 2y

So exciting!