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by AnthonyMouse 1123 days ago
> I don’t expect my x86 program to stop working after a software update or not to work on new x86 CPUs that’s just ridiculous.

Your x86 program doesn't work on Apple Silicon without something equivalent to a recompile. Old operating systems very commonly can't run on bare metal new hardware because they don't have drivers for it.

Even the IR isn't actually machine code, it's just a binary format of something that gets compiled into actual machine code right before use.

> Also if you expect anyone to compile anything you probably haven’t shipped anything in your life.

Half the software people run uses JIT compilation of some kind.