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IMO it's harder to compile for macOS than for windows. I don't have a macbook. I can legally run a trial copy of windows in virtualbox to test out cross-compil
by TheDong 6y ago
IMO it's harder to compile for macOS than for windows.
I don't have a macbook. I can legally run a trial copy of windows in virtualbox to test out cross-compiling stuff, or spin up a windows EC2 instance for a few hours, or even use circleci or other CI system's windows workers to build stuff.
For macOS, I can't legally run a VM on my hardware, ec2 doesn't support it so I can't spin up a VM, and most CI platforms don't support it (probably because many of them just resell fleets of ec2 instances).
Many FOSS developers are just hacking away on 3 year old laptops or desktops for fun, and can't afford a $2k investment just to support one more operating system for their little project.