Lab Notes

It's official, the rumors were true: Apple is switching to Intel processors. Yes, we will be supporting it. Elektron already runs on Windows — that takes care of our endian issues, and the GUI components are written using Cocoa, which require only "small tweaks". I'm guessing that the port will take less than an afternoon.

As a Mac user, I'm excited. As a Mac developer, I have mixed feelings. It's nice to know that there is a firm roadmap for future Macs, but now our testing matrix just got that much larger. Fortunately for us the bulk of our code is in a faceless daemon process that has easily automated testing. I don't envy developers that have a lot of manual testing for each release. This effectively doubles the amount of QA needed for such applications.