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by foepys
2793 days ago
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To be fair, how many developers with Macbooks are actually writing platform-specific code? I'm under the impression that most Macbook-wielding developers are web developers and work mostly with JavaScript, Python, Ruby etc. which all have ARM runtimes available. Even the "IDEs" (Atom, VS Code) are written in JavaScript nowadays or at least in Java with minor C parts (Jetbrains), which is also available for ARM platforms. Also, none of the web stuff is ever running on Mac OS, it's almost always Linux, maybe some Windows IIS. There are also a lot of people only using their Macbook for presentations, text writing, or even only surfing the web. Apple's own office suit will be ported to ARM when they change their CPU architecture, Microsoft has Office for ARM available (or at least in the pipeline for 2019), and LibreOffice is available for ARM as well. If Apple really wanted to do this, they would release their small Macbook (non-Pro) with ARM first and then describe a plan to change to ARM for the Macbook Pro line within a few years. No need for a transition period where emulation takes place, everything important is already ARM-ready. The iMac Pro is another thing, that might actually be harder but I imagine manageable if Adobe etc. are willing to invest/to be paid to support ARM. |
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There are of course the millions of iOS developers.
And besides that, in any conference, from C to Rust to C++ to Java, you'll see tons of Macbook-wielding developers, often the majority.
And when it comes to keynote speakers at conferences (as opposed to audience) the PC laptop is the exception as opposed to the norm...