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I'm both excited and troubled, mostly because I fear the loss of LTS on x86-64: how long will Xcode, macports, and even brew support both architectures. Apple i

I'm both excited and troubled, mostly because I fear the loss of LTS on x86-64: how long will Xcode, macports, and even brew support both architectures. Apple isn't one for backwards compatibility so this might be rough few years. I shudder to think about how long it will take to debug all of the Python3 wheels and Node packages macOS devs are accustomed to. I already have issues with versions of both language's packages failing to install with other versions, and that's on the same platform, OS and CPU architecture. Still, I'm excited. Intel is way overpriced compared to Arm at similar performance and power.

tgv 6y ago
O damn, that probably also means no more building docker images on the mac.
saagarjha 6y ago
I should note that Xcode supports ARM perfectly well and MacPorts does the same for PowerPC. I'm sure they'll be fine.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  Note that Brew doesn't even support macOS Sierra[1]. It doesn't outright refuse to run, but there's a big warning message that stuff will break and maintainers won't care—and lots of stuff does indeed break. Macports's support for legacy versions of OS X is unique, and dare-I-say incredible. 1: https://docs.brew.sh/Installation#macos-requirements https://docs.brew.sh/Installation#macos-requirements
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