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Re:Apple to debut multiple ARM MacBook, desktop models in 2021 by wool_gather on Sunday March 29, 2020 @02:28PM (#22721310)
They can't do this unless they are okay with never selling machines again to anyone who needs to write code. There's no feasible way for all programming tools to be distributed through MAS. IPython isn't going to suddenly go through the marathon of crap you need to get into the store.

If absolutely nothing else, native developers: you can't have more than one version of a MAS app installed. Nearly every iOS developer I know has at least two versions of Xcode at any given time.

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Re:Apple to debut multiple ARM MacBook, desktop models in 2021 by dhhwrongagain on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:13PM (#22721701)
That’s not true. Many people write code on Mac despite kernel extensions being disabled and SIP. What will be considered root will be a superficial emulation convincing enough to fool most Unix software
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