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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 7/1/20 12:27 PM, Yatheendra wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 14:27:21 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 14:11:18 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>>> On 02/07/2020 1:39 AM, Yatheendra wrote:
>>>> ARM may be urgent, if say, the Pinebook, takes off among developers.
>>>
>>> ldc and gdc are a thing.
>>>
>>> We are ok.
>>
>> One might not think so if reading this forum. There are enough real 
>> problems to worry about without adding pretend ones on top.
> 
> If dmd and its scripting-like development cycle speed stops being the 
> primary entry point for newbies, it is a "pretend one". Until then, it 
> doesn't seem to be a dismissible problem. Again, until a Pinebook or an 
> ARM Macbook/Mini becomes a developer preference, there is no urgency for 
> the "dmd experience on ARM".

It may not be a dismissable problem, but it's also not someone anyone 
but Walter can fix. So the question from a community standpoint is 
(allowing that we have really no control over this), is it worth having 
Walter create an entirely new backend instead of doing other work? I'd 
say no.

Unless someone else knows how to make this happen?

Another approach may be to figure out a way to make a non-optimized 
build with ldc run as fast as or close to dmd.

-Steve