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0 pointsthreeseed1y ago0 comments

> I'd first have to buy a new Mac for that

Which means you are running Mojave and your Mac is at least 6 years old.

I wouldn't expect anyone to support developers who are running a two generation old OS.

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I can run the latest version of my OS of choice on hardware twice that old.

This is only a problem that Apple has created to help them sell hardware. These days, a 6-year-old laptop is still a perfectly capable machine.

threeseedOP1y ago

And it is still a perfectly capable machine.

But you can't expect Apple to support it as a development platform. Especially when they want you to use the latest SDKs which only work on newer machines.

tempodox1y ago

You're moving the goal posts. I'm not interested in SDKs that cannot work on a given OS or CPU, I just want to update the compiler to make use of progress in the language, without being forced by Apple to buy new hardware for that, or install a different OS. You pretending these things cannot be separated looks deeply disingenuous.

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