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

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Jul 1 18:24:24 UTC 2020


On 2020-07-01 10:22, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:

> There are plenty of solutions, without having to rely on Apple!

If we're talking specifically about supporting the new Apple Silicon (as 
they call their ARM chip) any old ARM won't do. Apple uses a slightly 
different ABI then regular ARM. It might get you close, but not all the 
way. Alternatively, one can work with an iPhone or an iPad. iPhone and 
iPad apps run unmodified on Macs with Apple Silicon. It happens so, that 
this dev kit is running exactly the same CPU as the latest iPad Pro.

Also, one probably need to be able to cross-compile, which DMD doesn't 
support. Or using an old version from when DMD was written in C++ to 
bootstrap.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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