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

[Yatheendra]

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 14:27:21 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 14:11:18 UTC, rikki cattermole 
> wrote:
>> On 02/07/2020 1:39 AM, Yatheendra wrote:
>>> ARM may be urgent, if say, the Pinebook, takes off among 
>>> developers.
>>
>> ldc and gdc are a thing.
>>
>> We are ok.
>
> One might not think so if reading this forum. There are enough 
> real problems to worry about without adding pretend ones on top.

If dmd and its scripting-like development cycle speed stops being 
the primary entry point for newbies, it is a "pretend one". Until 
then, it doesn't seem to be a dismissible problem. Again, until a 
Pinebook or an ARM Macbook/Mini becomes a developer preference, 
there is no urgency for the "dmd experience on ARM".