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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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On 22/06/2020 23:53, Jerry wrote:
> Apple is beginning its third nightmare transition to a new processor family.. What does this mean for Ada on macOS?
> 
> Can we hope for a native compiler anytime soon? We will have Rosetta 2 until we don't. (Original Rosetta lasted for two OS generations and then it was taken away.) I could tell you the story of needing to run a small PowerPC program to set up a slightly old Apple WiFi device a couple years ago. Buy Parallels. Call Apple and send $30 to get Snow Leopard Server--that's 10.6. Virtualize Snow Leopard Server on Parallels to run the WiFi set-up program in Rosetta.)
> 
> Jerry
> 

GNAT-LLVM with possibly a custom system-aarch.ads and other runtime parts.