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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 6/24/20 12:40 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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 
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>>> This means there's genuine interest in Arm. Note there's similar move 
>>> by Microsoft to get their system to work on Arm chips.
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>>> 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
> 

Surely you mean GDC, not GCC?

-Steve