I wonder now that we are just a few days off 2021, if it has become a strategic time to become literate in ARM technologies, and by that I mean the instruction set, machine code, etc.

Why ? Perhaps because Apple's M1 is showing the world that x86 is a thing of the past, and while x86 is certainly useable for a long period of time still, its ugly machine code has probably turn away legion of developers who might give a new look, this time at ARM machine code.

Imagine if we started seeing code snippets written in ARM machine code in code repositories out there. Could this be enough to spawn a new generation of software developers who are happy to code in ARM assembly language almost as much as they were in disgust and quit trying doing that with X86 ?

Only future will tell. But I might embark onto it.

The positive outcome would be to be able to write code libraries for use in most mobile computers out there from day one. And perhaps a growing number of laptop and desktop computers if M1 turns successful from a marketing and technological standpoint.

It's time to get rid of Wintel, that's for sure.