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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nisten on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:35PM (#23609666)
This is just my opinion but I think it's great for consumers and a good restriction for developers.

As a consumer you shouldn't be running unsigned software because you're putting not only your data at risk but any data you have access to.

And as a developer on mac you can still run anything reasonably well in a VM. If you're using node, you should be running that in a virtualized environment in the first place, albeit I'm too lazy myself to always set that all up.

Actually it's pretty amazing that now we'll be able to run an entire x86 OS environment on an ARM chip and get very usable performance too.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by f89839999999999 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:18AM (#23611575)
> If you're using node, you should be running that in a virtualized environment in the first place

Just curious: why should node be ran in a virtualised environment for development? Is it a security concern? Does that apply to languages like python too? Would you be happy running it in a Docker container from macOS?

Thanks!

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by dwaite on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:48AM (#23610321)
Headsuphigh, Debian at least has been signing packages since 2005
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by wooger on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:46AM (#23614572)
How do we know it's "very useable" performance wise?

I'd say that we've moved away from virtualisation completely, we now use containers, so developers will expect native performance, as we get on other platforms.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ehutch79 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:31PM (#23619069)
docker on macOS runs in a VM.

If they're already on macOS, that's a thing.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by HeadsUpHigh on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:37AM (#23610254)
As someone on linux I've never run signed software ever in my life. Guess I've lost all my data and haven't even noticed!
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by willtim on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:41AM (#23610581)
Are you sure? Packages are signed for most of the mainstream distributions.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by m463 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:40AM (#23610575)
Linux signs its software.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by HeadsUpHigh on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:30AM (#23611655)
I mean signed by Apple or any big corporation.
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