Continue Rosetta 2 support for x86 apps on Mac
Please don't stop Rosetta 2 support because it makes Mac hardly suitable for developers and lots of pro users.
Hello, I know Apple won't support Rosetta 2 anymore since Mac OS 28 because Intel Macs shouldn't be supported anymore.
I use Mac for development and I think it's the best choice for it. I really don't care about old Intel Macs, but nowadays Rosetta 2 is really not only about Intel Macs.
As a developer, I run a lot of Windows and Linux x86 applications in my VMs. Rosetta 2 user-space performance based on M4 Max CPU performance allows me run x86 applications as being native. x86 software emulation (in Parallels or any other VM hosts can't be compared to Rosetta 2).
For example, I can build x86 app using extremely slow software emulation and then run it perfectly on my Mac using Rosetta 2.
Please don't remove the feature that makes Mac so perfect because with Rosetta 2 you don't care about x86 platform compatibility. You can run almost any application developed for x86 Windows (in my opinion, it's about 80% of pro-apps). Please don't remove a bridge that makes ex-Windows users don't really care about switching to Mac.
Since now, I stopped updating my Mac OS. I know the cons of stopping updating Mac os, but the pros for me worth much better.
Please don't force me buying a new hi-end windows laptop instead of my M4 Max / 128 Gb / 8 Tb MacBook that I bought for development (as well as running x86 Windows pro apps).
Thank you for understanding.
MacBook Pro 16″