Wondering how the Apple ARM transition is going to affect huge plug-in ecosystems, like DAWs and VSTs. This could go very poorly, with the effective loss of anything that isn't being actively developed and/or having to re-buy everything for ARM...
I'm talking about plug-ins. You can't provide a generic interposer that works for arbitrary plugin interfaces. Interposers have to be written specifically for every ABI boundary. Apple can make apps work but they can't make plug-ins work with different arch apps.
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We're *already* still halfway through the x86->amd64 bit transition in that space, and that's painful enough, and at least both of those run on the same CPU. Going to ARM now is going to be worse.
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So what's going to happen is all pro software on ARM Macs is going to be stuck running in fully emulated x86 mode for years, until the entire ecosystem moves to ARM. And then you'll have to buy everything again. And until then performance will be bad. This isn't good.
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