Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk writes:
Nope, not interesting at all really, means they only have to cope with a limited subset of hardware (only stuff that they want to support), and that all the current mac developers, unless they've been writing generic cross platform/architecture code, have got a hell of a lot of work to do...
My experience is that it is not particularly hard to write code that will run on multiple similar platforms (specifically, multiple flavours of UNIX).
Writing code that runs on the same OS on a different architecture is easier than that.
The only serious difficulty arises is if you write significant amounts of assembly. But who does that? Even then anyone who is targetting Windows and Mac will have the x86-friendly bits written already.