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

[bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 16:27:27 UTC, Yatheendra wrote:

> 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".

DMD brings a lot of value with its fast compilation speed. I 
don't see D losing all of its value without fast compilation, 
though, and I don't see ARM taking over the developer world any 
time soon. There's no reason you can't compile on a "normal" 
computer in the early stages and then move over to ARM for the 
final stages using LDC. I have trouble believing there will be a 
lot of exclusively ARM development going on anytime soon.

Just today there was a story posted where Linus said "Over the 
last 10 years or so I've been complaining about the fact that 
it's really hard to find Arm hardware that is usable for a 
developer," Torvalds responded. Everything about this being the 
end of the D programming language is speculative if the Linux 
kernel doesn't even support ARM as a first class citizen.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_maintainers_says_torvalds/