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

[Chris]

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 09:18:04 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 01:25:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/24/2020 4:21 AM, aberba wrote:
>>> PC was the only compelling target for Intel/Amd targets but 
>>> now its changing.
>>
>> Search for "arm computer" on newegg.com:
>>
>> https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=arm+computer
>>
>> :-)
>
> Just did. Don't get your point.

ARM is both a threat and a _chance_ for D.

Ignore it and D will finally disappear, development will become a 
chore or just impossible. Embrace it and it will open a new world 
for D. But do it properly with tooling (no complicated scripts as 
in "yeah it can be done somehow"). And do it now with a dedicated 
developer team that works only on this. Maybe use the funds you 
had allocated for DConf? std.fancy.allocator can wait.

If you start again with "Anyone can step up and become a champion 
of ARM", then you're doomed and D will be history in 2-5 years. 
Seriously, this is not about CS theory and experimentation. This 
is serious, especially for all the companies that use D. There's 
no software without hardware.

If you don't act now, this thread will be the one that announced 
the end of D.