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

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On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 16:27:27 UTC, Seb wrote:
> There are _zero_ plans to make DMD work on ARM architectures. 
> There are so many other actually impactful things to do ;-)
>
>> They're saying the transition will take two yrs. Seems they're 
>> really serious about the move to Arm. Two yrs to get DMD to 
>> work on Arm.
>
> To clarify and avoid confusion I see absolutely no reason 
> anyone would waste this huge effort of time into getting DMD to 
> work on ARM as there are two superior and working compiler 
> backends and thus this won't be happening.
>
> So yes you'll have to move away from DMD to LDC or GDC, but 
> that shouldn't be a concern to anyone as even today with the 
> amazing LDC team there's absolutely no reason to use DMD 
> either. In fact I personally believe using DMD for production 
> is irresponsible and at the very least should be strongly 
> discouraged as mwe can't seem to convince the DFL/Walter to 
> drop the DMD backend for obvious reasons.
>
> Tl;Dr: it's just yet another nail in the coffin against DMD ...

I somewhat agree, but if we look at the lengths that the Rust 
project has gone to to optimize compile times (and people still 
complain often about them), we should not completely discount the 
advantage that dmd offers.