[ribit]

Well, it seems like you made up your mind without doing any testing or educating yourself, so I am not quite sure what I can do to help you. Already your entirely nonsensical comment of “needing to sign the executable” speaks volumes. Why did I never need to sign anything despite building software on M1 machines daily for the last year? I wonder…

[saagarjha]

All code that runs on Apple silicon must be signed. If you don't explicitly sign your executable, the linker will inject an ad-hoc signature into your binary for you.

[ribit]

Sure. But it does not affect you as developer in any form or fashion. It's just a thing the linker does. You can still distribute your binaries, disassemble them etc. as you ever would.