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		coldtea on Nov 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application And it couldn't have happened sooner. Do you want to be burdened with layers of backwards compatibility and end up like POSIX or Autoconf with provisions for things that once run on some long forgotten UNIX OS version?

epse on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

32 bit support certainly isn't going to Bury you in backwards compatibility. It just runs

coldtea on Nov 13, 2020 | [–]

Just runs with 2 versions of the same library (32/64), and with older programs that can't take advantage of 64bit ABI / arch changes...

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