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The main reason M3 took a long time isn't related to m3 itself, but rather that the asahi project took on a ton of tech debt to get M1/M2 working. M3 wasn't too
by adgjlsfhk1 9mo ago
The main reason M3 took a long time isn't related to m3 itself, but rather that the asahi project took on a ton of tech debt to get M1/M2 working. M3 wasn't too difficult, but before taking on the additional tech debt, the Asahi team focused on getting all of their changes upstreamed to the linux kernel.
- tgtweak 9mo agoPrognosis is then that work for m4/m5 should be relatively straight line now that refactoring is done?
- monocasa 9mo agoThe main developer was also the target of a harassment campaign from a place that has pushed other targets to straight up suicide. That took almost all of their energy for the last year and they ended up quitting.
- xattt 9mo ago> The main developer was also the target of a harassment campaign from a place that has pushed other targets to straight up suicide. Is this the Torvalds/Hector dispute that comes on the Google AI summary, or was this a three-letter agency type of harassment faced by Aaron Swartz?
- alright2565 9mo agoAnti-trans hate.
- ggljejejj 9mo agoTrans hate.
- OJFord 9mo agoGP definitely meant the same thing, i.e. 'hate [that is] anti-transsexualism' to your 'hate [against] transsexualism'.
- nrabulinski 9mo agoFYI, transsexual is an outdated term, with transgender being generally preferred instead :)
- gpm 9mo agoNeither actually... It was an anti trans/kiwi farms brigade... The Torvalds dispute probably came about in part because of defensive behavior triggered this brigade but was really unrelated.
- norman784 9mo agoAFAIK they also were focusing on upstream the changes into the kernel [0], because the amount of downstream patches they were maintaining were making the work harder and harder. [0] https://asahilinux.org/2025/10/progress-report-6-17/ https://asahilinux.org/2025/10/progress-report-6-17/