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TL;DR - I tried it when the first m1's came out and it was a huge pain, ended up going back to x86 for my primary machine.

I got an m1 right when they came out because I started a new gig right around that time, literally happened the same week. Trying to get all my dev tools installed became a rat's nest of issues. I work as a backend / dist sys / systems engineer for my day job and so I have to write and use things that are fairly close to bare-metal. Brew hadn't been forked yet, so that added a whole new layer of issues.

Docker still doesn't work, Rust libs compile in weird ways... just all kinds of stuff that I'm not smart enough or paid well enough to figure out. My title is "Developer", not "M1 developer advocate" so after about a month of running into issue after issue, I went back and found a used MBP with an intel chip. I'm excited about the future of Apple silicon, and ARM as a whole, but it needs another couple years of refinement.

I will say that I've been using an m1 mac mini for general office work as apart of my side business and it's quite good.