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I have this, on Tahoe, and tracked it to Zoom. Still have no clue WHY, but it appears when I join a meeting and stays until I disconnect. It’s very annoying.

That's very interesting, because I don't have Zoom installed. I wonder if it is an OS prompt or something that isn't being rendered?

Python has some absolutely kick-ass libraries, even without C. It has Django, for those of us who like developing web apps but never could fall in love with Ruby on Rails. And Django is amazing. I've also yet to see a better language for writing quick ETL scripts and pipelines. Also, an 'I need a script for $SYSADMIN_TASK but I want to be able to read it later.' Anything dominated by external latencies (web, databases, etc) will be fast enough for many uses in Python.

Sure, it's not a language to write a web browser or game engine in. And it is slow. But it has some very strong niches outside of ML/Data science. Personally, I love it. To each their own.

> Also, an 'I need a script for $SYSADMIN_TASK but I want to be able to read it later

uv + PEP723 make this even better.

On the other end of the spectrum, today I needed to build a complicated piece of software on x86-64 Linux and all I have handy are ARM Macs. One qemu later, I have an 8-core “PC” building merrily. It won’t win speed records, but it’s entirely usable.

I know your needs were already met, but would a Docker image with a ready-to-go cross-compiler have done the job? (I've run into this task before.)

Go look at the editorial policy from Ars. Lee just writes like that; it's his style, it always has been.

This keeps getting posted and is not true. Rosetta is still present and working. It throws a deprecation warning notice but otherwise runs fine.

It's macOS 28 that will no longer run x86_64 apps, although games are exempt. Rosetta is basically going game only at that point. They haven't announced how long it will keep working in this capacity.

Have they announced how they’re going to make it game only? A whitelist based on a hash of the executable? That seems cumbersome.

The basic answer is ability to run x86_64 will still be there, but the system frameworks (apart from like OpenGL shims etc.) will no longer be shipped with x86_64 slices.

The macOS 27 release notes explain how to activate this mode. `game-test-tool`

My guess (without much to substantiate it) is that it will also keep support for running x86_64 programs in virtual machines via `container` too.

That’s correct, Rosetta for running x86_64 binaries in Linux VMs is not going away. They’re no longer branding this feature as Rosetta, so it doesn’t get lumped in with the Rosetta removal for Mac binaries (although it’s all still kinda confusing)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Virtualization/run...

Aha, thanks for the reference. Good to see that written down by Apple!