Is it possible to get work done on an Apple silicon Mac without ever installing Rosetta 2, the compatibility layer for running old Intel apps? In short, yes. At this point, any early fears about ...

If you’ve played games in your Steam library on the Mac, you’ll know that switching from an Intel Mac to one with Apple Silicon, you suddenly needed Rosetta 2, the emulator built into macOS, to do it.

Thanks! I'm not sure how Apple intends to leave it to support games and not other apps, but I would guess that only a subset of calls from Intel code into system frameworks will be bridged (e.g.

Valve has quietly released a Steam Client Beta that runs natively on Apple Silicon, finally ending its reliance on the Rosetta 2 translation layer. The updated Steam client eliminates the performance ...

It's a bit different this time though, because now they actually own and develop their own chips. Every architecture change in the past was motivated by having "grown ...