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it's not a solution anyway, Rosetta 2 will be dropped in several years.

Are you sure about this?

If this is true then the only way for PureBasic to serve future Macs would be to add another backend.
Now it has ASM and JS... will LLVM be next?
Or if it's easier, clone the JS backend and modify it to export C or Go...

@fsw: Do you mean SpiderBasic as „JS backend“?

Fred said he is already working on ARM target. Maybe that is the M1 support?

Yes Danilo, this is what I meant.
In my simple mind SpiderBasic is another backend of the same core PureBasic uses.


Thanks for the link, didn’t know that.
Wasn’t in this forum in several years, so I missed a lot probably.

Besides an ARM backend the TouchBar UI needs to be addressed as well.
As far as I remember PureBasic cannot handle macOS devices with TouchBar properly because of internal workings of the PureBasic UI core.
(Maybe changes were made in my absence, I don’t know)

Also the ODBC interface is broken after PureBasic versions 5.4x...

As sure as you can be when talking about Apple. First Rosetta was released in 2005 and deprecated in 2009, this time Apple says the whole transition will take "about two years", so probably with 2 years of support on top it will be the same 4 years in total.

Good point.


IMHO you are spot on with this as well.

Apple has a vision, and sometimes they follow this vision no matter how big the collateral damage.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

@wilbert
I wonder if you could install macOS Big Sur on a VM using Parallels Desktop?
I successfully installed Catalina on a VM in my mid 2010 Mac pro
have not used the Mac much since I bought a x64 PC with Windows, but I think I will give it a try

Should go.
With me High Sierra runs as VM under Parallels

Many report that Rosetta 2 is not an acceptable solution.
Large number of software packages won't install/not compatible or if you mange to get something working it could run up to 50% normal speed or be sluggish and unresponsive.

Any sources for that? I saw completely different reports.

My Parallels was very old so I tried it with the free version of VMware Fusion.
I got BigSur running. A bit slow but it works.

Just do a search for 'M1 honest review' and instead of getting a review sounding like Apple gave the exact same script to each 'fan boi' reviewer telling them to praise the new hardware, you see reviews like this...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/11/21/apple-macbook-pro-13-m1-reviewwhy-you-might-want-to-pass/?sh=37d05135786a
https://mspoweruser.com/too-good-to-be-true-plenty-of-software-not-compatible-with-apple-m1-laptops/

Um... You're talking about biased reviews while posting a link to a website called "mspoweruser" which mostly mirrors the Forbes article author's twitter? Interesting.
Well, there is a community list of app compatibility with Big Sur/M1 in case you want to see real data collected by real users.

UPD 26.11.20: here is another project that tries to keep track of the current state of things - https://isapplesiliconready.com/

Best of luck then

I don't think you understood me correctly, but sure, let's not dive into that.