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I can only imagine the horror it must be to be maintaining mac x86 software that turns out to not work with Rosetta (Like some of the examples listed). I do wi

I can only imagine the horror it must be to be maintaining mac x86 software that turns out to not work with Rosetta (Like some of the examples listed). I do windows desktop work and try to picture what would happen if our customers were suddenly moving to Win10 on Arm and expecting our software to work. We have dozens and dozens of third party binary dependencies, each of which could turn out to be the one that doesn’t translate. Not all of them could realistically be replaced or updated. The situation would basically be one where Microsoft had announced the death of our software and probably business.

macintux 6y ago
Long-time Mac developers are familiar with these transitions, and everyone had the opportunity to pick up development hardware this summer, so while it’s certainly not something to treat lightly, everyone with customers should have known what they were up against by now.
- alkonaut 6y ago
  Yeah but if I have a 10mb binary dependency on an x86 lib with no source code and the company that made it is long since gone, then deprecating x86 would make me sweat a bit.