Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 15:48:59 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 08:22:25 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> A 35$ Raspberry PI supports 2x 4K display, and comes with a 
>> Debian based linux complete with GUI. You can attach a 
>> keyboard, mouse and have a little ARM machine to toy with (but 
>> no precompiled LDC, its 32bit ...)
>
> What do you mean by "no precompiled LDC?"
>
> Just `sudo apt install ldc` and you go....
>
> ldc2 --version
> LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.12.0):
>   based on DMD v2.082.1 and LLVM 6.0.1
>   built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.12.0)
>   Default target: armv6-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
>   Host CPU: cortex-a72
>   http://dlang.org - http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC

Cool, (a little outdated) but cool!

Usually we use the tar from the release page of the LDC GitHub 
page, but good to know LDC it's available also on that platform!

Thank you Martin for the info!