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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by gok on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:34AM (#16818280)
macOS makes the 64-bit transition a bit harder than that because a lot of the older user space APIs were purposely not ported to 64-bit. If your app was written against the Carbon APIs, you have to do a fair amount of work to change all the GUI code.
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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by duskwuff on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:02AM (#16818388)
Yep. But developers have no excuse for being late to that show -- Carbon was always explicitly a transitional technology, for a transition which ended over 10 years ago. Warnings have been plastered all over the documentation for ages.
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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by x0x0 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:55AM (#16819333)
There's something to be said for the MSFT approach of your code will run forever. I understand there's tradeoffs, but there's something to be said for it.

Pointing a bunch of whiny users at devs -- some of whom gave code away for free -- is not awesome for the ecosystem. IMO.

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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by tinus_hn on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:25PM (#16822471)
Not awesome in the short term, but better in the long term.
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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by noisem4ker on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:45PM (#16823751)
Backwards compatibility is a very tangible benefit in the long term.
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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by gok on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:14AM (#16818432)
Truth.
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