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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

How are the screwing with gamedevs? I don't generally follow anything apple-related stuff

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Xcode absolutely sucks, only supporting Metal instead of something cross platform like vulkan doesn't help. Like they have their game porting toolkit but making a full native game is pain and suffering. Also cross compilation isn't real half the time.

Edit: there are vulkan wrappers like MoltenVK so it's not too awful to port. It's just a build flag and am extra library.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, and don't they make you do development on a Mac too? Or am I thinking of something else...

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

That too, but you can get around it somewhat using vms or building a hackintosh but afaik the latest version of macos doesn't run on Intel macs so that's largely on the way out.

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