Apple Silicon M1: a developer’s perspective

The new M1 MacBooks are fast, beautiful and silent and the hype is absolutely justified. There's still a lot to do on the software-front to catch up, and the bugs around older iOS Simulators are especially problematic.

All of that can be fixed in software and the whole industry is currently working on making the experience better, so by next year, when Apple updates the 16-inch MacBook Pro and releases the next generation of their M chip line, it should be absolutely possible to use a M1 Mac as main dev machine.

For the vast majority of people, it's going to be very hard to resist these new Macs. They're just so far ahead of the competition in performance, power draw, battery life, and noise (or lack thereof) that any x86-based laptop just can't compete, unless they go hardcore in on price.

I'd love to have one to test and review here for OSNews, but financially that's not in the cards for now.