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by alwillis 2052 days ago
An M1-based Mac will run:

* Universal apps (also known as "fat binaries") that run natively on Intel and M1 Macs

* ARM-native Mac apps

* Intel-based Mac apps via Rosetta 2

* iOS/iPadOS apps (developer’s choice)

* Unix/BSD command line apps (Vim, tmux, bash, zsh, etc.)

* Linux via’s built-in hypervisor

* Java

* Electron apps (VS Code, Slack, etc.)

* Windows via virtualization

* Web apps (Service Workers, WASM, push notifications, etc.) on Safari, Chrome, etc.

Safari is already a universal app; I'm sure Chrome, Firefox, etc. will follow shortly.