On Aug 10, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:

>> Not everyone uses ARC, or the other recent additions Apple has made to the 
>> language.
> 
> Yes, but the fact that everything new that Apple adds assumes that you're 
> compiling for 64-bit only really ought to tell you something.
>> 

Tell me what exactly? That 32-bit is going away in 10.9? That doesn't follow. 
That 32-bit will get dropped eventually? That was already obvious.

What it doesn't say anything about is the timing of the demise of 32-bit 
support.

>> I'm not trying to argue that you are wrong in your general conclusion about 
>> the fate of 32-bit, because you don't know and I don't know either.  What I 
>> am saying, though, is that for all of the 32-bit-the-sky-is-falling, the 
>> first place a 32-bit straggler turns—the 64-bit porting guide—the beast 
>> itself states upfront that you really may not want to make the transition 
>> after all.
> 
> I've talked to certain people "on the inside" who have also let me know quite 
> clearly that we need to be porting to 64-bit, but even beyond that, Apple 
> just transitioned the whole OS to 64-bit only with Lion last year. Anyone 
> with basic pattern recognition skills should know what to expect based on 
> what's happened the last few times Apple has transitioned the OS to a new 
> architecture. You're setting yourself up for a disaster if you fail to read 
> the writing on the wall.

That's all very nice, but it is still the case that Apple's porting guide 
declares that you might not want to port to 64 bit.  I'm glad that Greg chimed 
in (I was hoping someone from Apple would say something), but that does 
absolutely nothing for all of the Mac developers not on cocoadev. 

Best,


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