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

[Iain Buclaw]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 12:56:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 6/24/20 7:21 AM, aberba wrote:
>> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/apples-new-macs-how-theyll-work-after-ditching-intel-chips-11592862690
>> 
>> 
>> This means there's genuine interest in Arm. Note there's 
>> similar move by Microsoft to get their system to work on Arm 
>> chips.
>> 
>> 
>> PC was the only compelling target for Intel/Amd targets but 
>> now its changing.
>
> I was wondering about this. DMD I think only supports Intel, 
> right? Are there any plans to support ARM, or will ldc/gdc be 
> the only compilers that support Mac in the future?
>

GCC still only supports powerpc, i386, or x86_64 darwin.  I 
imagine there'll be a little nudge in the direction of getting 
ARM support soon, but not during the current development cycle 
for 11.0