Yes, that’s exactly what the linked article mentions
> If your application is written in a scripting language,
> odds are that you can simply move it over to an A1 instance
> and run it as-is. If your application compiles down to
> native code, you will need to rebuild it on an A1 instance.
I don’t think it is a moat, just stating the simple case.
I’ve spent a lot of time making cross-compile work for complicated builds. It can be tedious and frustrating fighting compilers and build systems to get it right.
Sometimes it is necessary because the target didn’t have a complete native toolchain, but other times because the target was just so incredibly slow for large builds.
I haven’t built anything with them, but these Arm servers appear to be neither of those two cases.
I doubt it's that hard if you're using a language with a reasonable cross-compile toolchain. That will probably influence choice of technology for new things aimed at this kind of performance envelope.
No doubt a lot of existing software will be left out by cross-compilation being too much of a pain.
If you use a modern gitops CI/CD type workflow building containers automatically then you don't need to worry about the manual building part either - this can be done cleanly with automation
