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>>109030484 (OP)
This can't be real
itoddler status?

>>109030484 (OP)
Thats why i have an iphone, im not retarded.

>>109030548
BTFO'd!

>>109030484 (OP)
Good. This obsession with supporting le legacy is what gave us Windows.

>>109030697
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>>109030697
trvke

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>>109030548
you people don't even realize what could be (and also see >>109030697)
mac users have, on average, not used any non-arm software in the past 2-3 years by now
apple doesn't give a fuck about publishers' feefees, so they actually update their shit regularly and timely, to not lose access to the only market that actually pays for software
the extended-extended-last-extension-i-swear-pleaaaaase method that windows takes is how you get half-unbelievable shit like the steam client still being 32 bits in 2026

>>109031361 (cont)
>steam client still being 32 bits in 2026
and I mentioned this because this impacts a lot of linux users (as it was about the last common piece of software requiring 32 bit multilib support on linux distros)
and yes they finally fixed their shit on Jan 1st 2026 on Windows
only 7 years later than they somehow managed to do on macOS! must have been so much more difficult and not at all cause they didn't give a fuck and knew nobody would force their lazy hand :)

Seven years should be more than enough time for developers to port their apps to Apple Silicon, shouldn't it?

>>109030484 (OP)
>claude, take a look at cumslutadventures.exe, understand the concept of the program and rewrite it as a native macos app with an up to date tech stack and best practices
legacy niggers can't even comprehend

>>109031449
Nigga, this critical scientific software we use won't get updated. The author is long dead.

>>109031459
>it fails to compile
>the power of "AI"

>>109031465
Which critical scientific software are you referring to?

>>109031449
it is, and by a lot
but windoze users are so used to developers routinely taking 20 years to update anything that they've started believing it's impossible
just look at the state of windows on arm software support; it will be 2050 before it's seamless for them (and they'll defend it!)

>>109031465
>critical software
>won't get updated author is long dead
you buy "critical software" with a bus factor of 1 often? just so I can short your retarded company

>>109031478
You know shit about science. Most software is 10+ years old.

>>109031497
>Most software is 10+ years old.
and? old doesn't mean it can't be recompiled every 10-15 years does it?
the problem is your retarded normalization of "1 single guy is dead, so this critical piece of infra is now a black box forever let's hope we can buy spare parts!"
unless that 1 dead guy was a fucking alien from the future, you can have someone dust off the source code and run gcc on it, I promise

>>109031531
closed-source faggot

>>109030484 (OP)
I'm so glad imma Apple sheep!

>>109030484 (OP)
It's not even getting fully removed for real because apparently they'll leave it in for "legacy games" whatever the fuck that means

>>109031536
sorry anon I thought I was talking to someone with technical abilities
if it's open source there's even less excuse for "nuhhhh we can't moveeeeee" since you can literally do the minimal work yourself (assuming you had any technical ability of course)

>>109031553
it's unclear what they really plan in that regard; I guess something similar to the steam runtime on linux?

>>109031565
Nobody will give you credit for rewriting a fucking scientific tool. You publish retarded shit for points if you want to stay.

>>109031531
> it can't be recompiled every 10-15 years
You’ve never worked in software development,
Half the time they can’t get the current version to build. Current version uses a 10+ year old compiler because it doesn’t compile on new ones.
Often the build is so complicated, no one person really understands it.
Our build process, for (one small example) example, needs 5 versions of ‘m4’ some old and some new, all mutually incompatible.

>>109031361
>not used any non-arm software in the past 2-3 years by now
>2-3 years
That's literally almost nothing for any adult, and even less for any enterprise.

This established apple as consumer toy company.

niggas acting like they cant shitpost about hating apple on a macbook lol

>>109031584
>for rewriting
you seldom have to rewrite anything though; 99% of the time it's just recompiling. 99% of the remaining time it's maybe 2-3 hours updating things.
the remaining 0.01% of the time it is indeed rewriting so... make a VM or something? I'm pretty sure that's what IBM's whole business is, gouging retards that would rather pay millions yearly than spend a few hours per decade fixing shit software

>>109031617
I've not spent my career working in utterly disynctional companies lol
you realize that there exists a world out where things are compilable forever at any point in time and so on? and that your situation is the oddity

>>109031640
another "my company is as dysfunctional as public services" post? are you the same anon or do you both work for the government pensions IT service or something? couldn't find a more palatable job?

zoomies don't even remember they have been through this already with powerpc
supporting indefinitely legacy is just tech debt
the real issue in macos is the absolute insane code signing policy
can't do shit without paying apple a 100 bux a year

>>109030697
>Good. This obsession with supporting le legacy is what gave us Windows.
so, a good thing that people rely on and sometimes even enjoy using? is that your argument here?
of course current windows is broken as fuck and I had to move to macos. but still. that was a good run

>>109031792
You stupid fuck, scientific software is COMPLICATED.
>just recreate it in your spare time bro 1:1 in rust if you can

>>109031361
>half-unbelievable shit like the steam client still being 32 bits in 2026
Valve keeps crying and begging distro maintainers to not get rid of 32 bit libraries.

>>109031465
>The author is long dead.
Just port him to Apple Silicon.

>>109031894
>scientific software is COMPLICATED.
the science behind scientific software is complicated perhaps, but scientific software itself is typically quite simple
there's very little valid reason for unportable code unless it deals with obscure hardware for which drivers only half-exist, or it's embedded and works on janky half-C-runtime-supporting stick of silicon, etc

>>109031813
nta but I think the reason "current windows is broken as fuck" is in good part that microsoft can barely ever change a thing to avoid breaking backwards compat
even shit that's completely out of backwards-compatibility-promises.
niche "oh dinocorp X runs software that depends on the third section of the control panel being 123px wide at least" type shit
so imagine trying to do actual changes to non-obscure shit, like the cpu isa? lmao they will kick and scream till the end of time and microsoft will remain shackled until these people literally fucking die from old age or the companies go under

>>109031923
and they would keep doing it forever unless they started really getting some shit for it

>>109031978
kek

>>109030484 (OP)
Really wonder what impact this will have on Crossover.
It already doesn't work on macOS very well compared to on Linux where it runs nearly everything. And compatibility and performance are even worse on Apple Silicon.

I hope I won't have to use VMs in the future. The only good one is Parallels' and they are too expensive / a bitch to pirate.

>>109030697
>Windows gamer buys game on Steam in 2006
>Still runs just fine 20 years later
>Mac Gamer (LOOL) bought game on Steam / App Store 20 years ago
>Sorry, support for 32 bit apps ended lol
>money stolen

It downgrades you to the console experience where you can't play the games you already own. Not until they give you the option to just buy the remastered remixed HD super duper edition for full price again, which might work against for a few more years before future macOS changes break it again.

>>109032375
apple could easily just hook into what valve is doing with linux by just supporting vulkan but they're too stuck up to do that