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Chips without legs . . .

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 10:06 am
by richmond62
Apple have just announced they will be transitioning to ARM chips:

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-wwdc-de ... this-week/

What has LiveCode got hiding under Kevin's sofa?

"Programmers will have varying degrees of difficulty rebuilding their software for Arm-based Macs
while continuing to support Intel-based Macs that will still be used for years."
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This one will be laughing her socks off: but will we?

Re: Chips without legs . . .

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:29 pm
by richmond62
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"Stew my foot and call me 'Brenda."

Re: Chips without legs . . .

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:27 pm
by FourthWorld
Every few years Apple makes some sort of change that requires deep revisions for all developers: 69k to PPC, Classic to OSX, PPC to Intel, Carbon to Cocoa, 32 bit to 64 bit.

This is just the upheaval du jour, and I can't imagine the LC team wouldn't handle this as well as they've handled all the previous upheavals before.

Re: Chips without legs . . .

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:29 pm
by richmond62
FourthWorld wrote:
Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:27 pm
This is just the upheaval du jour, and I can't imagine the LC team wouldn't handle this as well as they've handled all the previous upheavals before.
Well: I've lobbed them some money, and I hope everyone else will manage something:

https://livecode.com/covid-19-livecode-impact-fund/

Because, if LiveCode don't keep their heads above water we might all drown in a sea of ARM chips.

Re: Chips without legs . . .

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 8:45 am
by richmond62
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Crystal "balls" ? 8)