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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 7/2/20 6:31 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/1/2020 10:00 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that 3/4 of the backend can be used pretty much as-is. 
> The optimizer, for example, is independent. The 16 bit stuff can be 
> omitted, so can the floating point emulator and x87 code. The rest of 
> the structure can be kept, just replacing the tinsel on the christmas 
> tree. The exception handling support, symbolic debug support, and object 
> file support should be the same.

Well, as I said, it's you who probably has to do it, so if you want to 
do it, then I would love to keep using DMD on my (future) macbook ;)

-Steve