ARM isn’t better than x86 though. If you’re talking about Apple’s M-series chips, the most important difference is the manufacturing process (Apple buys up all of the next gen production capacity), not the instruction set architecture.
A better example is EVs vs gas engines for around town usage, EVs require less maintenance, are cheaper to fuel, and have more torque (more fun to drive). Likewise, Rust has more safety guarantees, nicer idioms, and nifty modern features, and if C++ and Rust were both released today, there’d be almost no reason to prefer C++.
ARM isn’t better than x86 though. If you’re talking about Apple’s M-series chips, the most important difference is the manufacturing process (Apple buys up all of the next gen production capacity), not the instruction set architecture.
A better example is EVs vs gas engines for around town usage, EVs require less maintenance, are cheaper to fuel, and have more torque (more fun to drive). Likewise, Rust has more safety guarantees, nicer idioms, and nifty modern features, and if C++ and Rust were both released today, there’d be almost no reason to prefer C++.
ARM is very very obviously superior to x86. You won’t be able to find anyone informed that will say otherwise.
Probably the biggest way it is better is that instructions are always 2 or 4 bytes which makes wide decoders a lot easier.