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Mac Mini, 16GB RAM.

Managed to compile FreePascal and Lazarus for M1 (aarch64); was fairly straight forward.

I’ve been playing / prototyping with FPC/Lazarus over the holidays so it’s nice to run without Rosetta.

Compiles are super fast, but of course fpc/Lazarus is pretty quick already. ;-)

Shout out for FPC/Lazarus - so underrated, and too often ignored. Like Delphi, but for free. If you want native binary GUI apps for multiple platforms it's great. And I can confirm it works very well indeed on the M1 MacBook Air 8GB base model too (for developing apps; I didn't need to compile the toolchain personally).

Yeah I didn’t have to compile fpc/Lazarus for it to run on M1 (it works just fine), it is just that I wanted to give it a try!

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