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I’d like to see a “benchmark” about M1’s support for real world dev setup (docker, brew, libraries and so on). And when can we expect the full support

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I consider myself a "real" developer and I don't use any of that stuff. So far my observations about tool and library availability:

Node: build it from source at HEAD and it works fine. Will work out of the box in release 16.

Java: Get the Azul JRE, works fine.

Go: Has to be bootstrapped from HEAD.

c++ toolchain: works out of the box

cmake: build and install from source release, no problems.

bazel: still doesn't grok darwin_arm64, release build tries to x-compile everything.

anything that needs bazel: doesn't work due to above.

python3: comes in the box, works

R: no native package yet

Caveat; if you need Java 15, Azul doesn't have that as yet.

That said, most people probably do not; 11 is still the most recent LTS version, which is what most people would be interested in.

Brew status: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 Docker status: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/142

From a quick glance neither have committed release dates, but "soon."

I'm avoiding brew/docker myself on my main desktop as I've screwed it up a couple of times doing that before. Thus I fire up a t2.small in AWS to test docker images on. My local box is VSCode, Terraform, aws cli, Go, Python etc and everything just works (mostly through Rosetta)

Ideally, Docker et al will be ready by the time the MacBook Pros come out. Here is hoping.

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