OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64

Post by skrtskrt » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #6

alderz wrote: post #3

By reading the stream of comments on the PR, and from my own experience, I feel that it is extremely cumbersome to do code reviews on Github. Atlassian's Fisheye/Crucible looks like a better solution. Does anyone think otherwise? I think Github has a large room of improvement in this regard; a PR is not the same as an issue.

I don't feel like GH is really meant to be a code review platform. It does PRs, but I assume that review should be done offline (like in other tools, like Crucible). We have used GH as a review platform for an open-source project, but they tend to be relatively minor PRs. If they got hairier, we'd probably find something else. Personally, I really don't like having a gazillion different tools. If we can use one tool…

Post by heavyset_go » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

cesarb wrote: post #21

heavyset_go wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who jumped on the ARM train early, and someone who doesn't want to contribute to creating more electronic waste than necessary, it's disheartening to see 32-bit ARM being increasingly ignored as a platform compared to ARM64.

It's not just ARM; the same has been happening to x86. 32-bit in general is going out of fashion for general-purpose platforms.

Post by asveikau » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

EduardoRFS wrote: post #4

nindalf wrote: post #2

I think most programming languages and associated tools will start supporting ARM64 as a first class citizen. The current lack of support isn't due to apathy, just constraints around ARM64 not being popular for desktop development. For example, it's difficult to support a platform that isn't well supported by your CI/CD provider. Linus Torvalds previously said that ARM on the server would never be a thing since devel…

I don't think that was the case for a long time on the tooling side, OCaml has a great support for ARM64 for a long time now, but Linux ARM64. But well most developers aren't actually using Linux. But a thing that is going to change is supporting iOS, one of the reasons that this PR was approved(and it adds support to iOS) it's mostly because there is a Mac ARM64

Post by enedil » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

EduardoRFS wrote: post #4

nindalf wrote: post #2

I think most programming languages and associated tools will start supporting ARM64 as a first class citizen. The current lack of support isn't due to apathy, just constraints around ARM64 not being popular for desktop development. For example, it's difficult to support a platform that isn't well supported by your CI/CD provider. Linus Torvalds previously said that ARM on the server would never be a thing since devel…

I don't think that was the case for a long time on the tooling side, OCaml has a great support for ARM64 for a long time now, but Linux ARM64. But well most developers aren't actually using Linux. But a thing that is going to change is supporting iOS, one of the reasons that this PR was approved(and it adds support to iOS) it's mostly because there is a Mac ARM64

Post by EduardoRFS » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 4:42 PM UTC

asveikau wrote: post #26

EduardoRFS wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that was the case for a long time on the tooling side, OCaml has a great support for ARM64 for a long time now, but Linux ARM64. But well most developers aren't actually using Linux. But a thing that is going to change is supporting iOS, one of the reasons that this PR was approved(and it adds support to iOS) it's mostly because there is a Mac ARM64

I don't know much about ocaml specifically, but speaking in the abstract, probably one of the best reasons I can think of for a compiler to target arm64 Linux is to target android phones.