Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app support on the Mac

Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by mrpippy on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:56AM (#16818114)

There are also a whole bunch of APIs left out of 64-bit macOS, including almost all of Carbon that dealt with UIs (HIToolbox, ATSUI, QuickDraw, Nav Services, Dialog/Menu/Font Manager, etc). None of these APIs have received anything more than bare maintenance in the last 10 years, and evolving the system while keeping them operational has not been easy.

In a way, this is the true last step of the Mac OS X transition that started in 2001--the removal of the transitional APIs that made it possible.

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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by Twisell on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:30AM (#16818729)

I find it interesting in perspective of the Swift language their are now pushing.

Theoretically would’nt programms written in pure Swift today be able to compile for any new hardware plateform, thus avoiding the kind of issues that 32/64 switch faced?

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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by AstralStorm on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:39AM (#16818764)

Instead you get issues with updating from Swift 1.x to 7.x.

The educational story of this sort is the transition between python 2 and 3... not ever done for some packages.

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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by saagarjha on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:53PM (#16822749)

Swift is a new language, so it’s sure to have source breakage in the first few versions. The compiler is now backwards compatible, though.

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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by spronkey on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:53AM (#16819326)

So much this. When you're a small team, this sort of thing can basically mean having a product vs not.

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