> The writing has been on the wall for at least the last 5 years since LLVM replaced GCC in XCode. It became even more obvious when Apple started compiling to "

> The writing has been on the wall for at least the last 5 years since LLVM replaced GCC in XCode. It became even more obvious when Apple started compiling to "Bitcode" so that they could deliver optimized binaries to devices. These weren't clear signs of an upcoming ARM switch: • Apple has been purging software that's under the GPL for quite a while now, and GCC was probably high on the list since Apple (NeXT) had been bitten by its license before[1]. • The Intel switch in 2006 was extremely smooth even using GCC. • Bitcode is not enabled on macOS, and even if it were, it's not abstract enough to recompile an x86 app for ARM[2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158017 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9728162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9728162