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

[Iain Buclaw]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 17:19:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This means there's genuine interest in Arm. Note there's 
>>>> similar move by Microsoft to get their system to work on Arm 
>>>> chips.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>

GDC only enforces that language semantics are adhered to.  It's 
GCC (back-end) that takes care of the target support.  I imagine 
library support in druntime should mostly be there, as LDC 
already has LLVM support for arm-darwin.