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Re:What Unity Is Getting Wrong by Jasper_ on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:57AM (#23273440)
Requiring Mac OS to build binaries is unfortunately an Apple restriction. Apple has a large number of both technical and legal barriers allowing cross compiling.
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Re:What Unity Is Getting Wrong by cpeterso on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:26PM (#23273810)
Mozilla cross-compiles Firefox's macOS (and Windows) builds on Linux. Build times are much faster on Linux and build scripts for macOS, Windows, and Linux can share more common code.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921040

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Re:What Unity Is Getting Wrong by Jasper_ on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:05PM (#23277603)
This doesn't account for all the Mac-specific graphics tooling like the Metal compiler, metal-al, metallib and such.
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Re:What Unity Is Getting Wrong by kbenson on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:02PM (#23278066)
Firefox for Mac OS uses GPU acceleration though, so are they doing something fundamentally different than a game would? They need to expose WebGL, and they hardware accelerate page rendering too if I'm not mistaken.
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