Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in
As an outsider looking in, it&#x27;s hard to take this post seriously. There are biases evident, the most glaring of which is the proclamation that &quot;all of my software &#x27;just works&#x27;&quot; followed by a laundry list of software for which beta versions had to be installed in order to be functional at all (including Docker).<p>It&#x27;s frankly surprising to me how many hoops people are willing to jump through to use an Apple machine when Docker, arguably the single most important tool many developers use, is just a crappy experience on that platform (ARM or not).<p>M1 from a hardware perspective is neat, but I am not holding my breath that the rest of the industry is going to move towards ARM for regular old PCs. The only reason M1 is viable _at all_ is because of reasonably fast x86_64 emulation. And that requires special hardware that non-M1 platforms don&#x27;t have. I suspect Apple would jealously guard against any attempt by a competitor to build something similar.