I'll admit to being biased up front, as I run a lot of ARM and POWER stuff, so I have a vested interest, but I have to agree that this feels short sighted. ARM at the very least has a big potential to take a much bigger slice of the market, with ARM servers and ARM Macs "finally" coming out in force, while ARM has been dominating smartphone and mobile devices for at least the last, say, 15 years, and has gotten a lot of mindshare through SBCs like the Raspberry Pi.
It's a fun project, but I don't think the assumption that everything is x86 is as safe as the author proposes.
It's a fun project, but I don't think the assumption that everything is x86 is as safe as the author proposes.