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Re:About the Rosetta Translation Environment by lsllc on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:04AM (#23614811)
Possibly they'll do something like WSL/WSL2 to provide an ARM based Linux kernel interface and then use Rosetta2 to translate the x64 code in user space to ARM?

Having ARM only containers would be mostly useless (it's technically possible, but I bet there are very few ARM container images around).

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Re:About the Rosetta Translation Environment by dannyw on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:25AM (#23615151)
There are heaps and heaps of ARM containers around thanks to the Raspberry Pi.

I've never had a problem running Docker on my Pi, and I don't expect anyone will have a problem running Docker on a Mac given Apple's much much larger developer market share.

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Re:About the Rosetta Translation Environment by cpuguy83 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:21AM (#23615068)
All the base images are multi arch, which I suspect covers the majority of uses in dev envs.
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