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I think they're dropping support for installation on 32-bit machines, not the 32-bit libraries needed to run 32-bit software on a 64-bit OS.
The former already happened. In this case it was the latter. this would have ruined wine right when stream was beginning to make running games with wine easy.
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So the cryptocurrency stuff isn't at all part of the language or stdlib?
What makes you think it is? There are plans to offer a lightweight console module for the Ethereum scheme and C3 dialect, but since there's very little interest in this branch of development from the community (and a lot of skepticism with nay-saying) it's not a priority.
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Does anyone else think cutting off 32-bit support basically killed off what remained appealing about the Mac that differentiated it from being just a “desktop iOS iPad in the iCloud ecosystem”? I lost access to so much cherished stuff that I am currently evaluating a switch to Ubuntu 20.04
Of all the tiny papercuts I've suffered on macOS over the last five years, I don't miss 32-bit apps at all. Must have just gotten lucky, but literally nothing stopped working when I migrated to a new Catalina machine. Ok I had to do some jimmying to get Keybase back, but that wasn't a 32/64-bit issue, that was weird kext permissions stuff.
Pretty much 90% of my Steam games that had Mac versions, suddenly did not work. And there was no warning, because most of them weren't currently installed (so the catalina installer didn't warn); I just got a cross through them after upgrading.
"Mac gaming" wasn't something I did that much anymore, but I had a lot of attachment to certain games (some which of course "I totally intended to replay one day") and suddenly they became unavailable.
Many older apps I still ran now and then, stopped working.
I kept my S.O. on Mojave so that I wouldn't be forced to upgrade her Office suite to the subscription model Microsoft is pushing.
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Looks really interesting. Anyone able to get this to work on Catalina? I'm getting "bad CPU type in executable" for both the PPC and Intel versions.