AFAIK the PowerPC and the Arm instruction sets are very different. Also the CISC vs RISC thing is a different argument - more for the people that design processor architectures. Most software nowadays is written at a high level and the underlying metal is abstracted away from programmers.Ploki wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:16 amlet's be super fair tho, apple has been using RISC (PowerPC) for about the same time as X86. (1990-2006 - 16 years) And Alexey actually made PowerPC plugins up until 2011.
x86/CISC was 2006-2020 - 14 years.
And lets also be more fair, apple has been doing their own chips since iphone 4 (2010) so the M1 is more like 14th gen chip than 1st gen or "bleeding edge".
First gen iphone was out in 2007, so technically apple has been using RISC from 1990 to 2020s, 4 decades!
And iPads are, for all intents and purposes a "personal computer".
Now if we're done being obtuse here, can we stop pretending that compiling for 1980s DOS-based systems has anything to do with developing in 2020s?
And I think you're missing the point. It's going to take more than a year and a half to port the massive amount of software out there. I was there for the transition from PPC to Intel Macs, back then there were far less plugins and the code was much simpler, but it still took a few years for all the software to make the transition.