Racket's fork of Chez Scheme now runs native on Apple M1 silicon. That's a remarkable feat; GHC Haskell for instance doesn't yet, and their blogs explain the difficulties.
I keep a zoo of exotic languages, many of which must be build from source. I took a plunge buying an M1 Mac mini, imagining that emulation would hide the transition. Not so for the zoo. At least I have other machines.
For actually using a language, one wants there to be a critical mass of sophisticated support. Racket has long had best-of-class documentation, but this technical feat of native M1 support is a serious feather in their cap.
I keep a zoo of exotic languages, many of which must be build from source. I took a plunge buying an M1 Mac mini, imagining that emulation would hide the transition. Not so for the zoo. At least I have other machines.
For actually using a language, one wants there to be a critical mass of sophisticated support. Racket has long had best-of-class documentation, but this technical feat of native M1 support is a serious feather in their cap.