I was _so_ hopeful when I asked the devs to revive the Nx-UI code so that FH/MX could have been a native "Cocoa" app....
Freehand still works on Windows 11? I’m happy for you, I never found a true replacement for it.
> a digital revival of a hot metal typeface created by my favourite type designer/illustrator who passed in 1991, but whose widow was gracious enough to give me permission to revive
Any reason you haven’t shared the name of the designer or the typeface? That story sounds interesting, I’d really welcome learning more.
The designer/typeface are Warren Chappell's Trajanus, and his unreleased Eichenauer --- I read _The Living Alphabet_ (and his cousin Oscar Ogg's _The 26 Letters_) when I was very young, and met him briefly on a school field trip back when he was Artist-in-Residence at UVA and did a fair bit of research in their Rare Book Room, and even had a sample of the metal type (missing one character unfortunately).
It is currently stalled at my having scanned and drawn up one of each letter at each size which I have available, but only having two letters, _N_ and _n_ in all sizes --- probably shouldn't worry that much about the optical axis, since it was cut in metal in one master size and the other sizes made using a pantograph, but there were _some_ adjustments which I'd like to preserve. There is a digital version of Trajanus available, but it's based on the phototype. I've been working at recreating each character using METAFONT, encompassing the optical size variation in that programmatically, but it's been slow going (and once I'm done, I then have to work out how to make it into outlines....)
Granted, that's less of an issue now with most new SW being written in JS to run in any browser but old institutions like banks, insurances, industrial, automation, retail chains, etc still run some ancient Java/C#/C++ programs they don't want to, or can't update for reasons but it keeps the lights on.
Which is why I find it adorable when people in this bubble think all those industries will suddenly switch to Macs.
(Ironically, windows 11 + corporate bloatware made the laptops super laggy. Go figure.)
https://www.accio.com/business/operating-system-market-share...
Is there a separate part of Rosetta that is implemented for the VM stuff? I was under the impression Rosetta was some kind of XPC service that would translate executable pages for Hypervisor Framework as they were faulted in, did I just misunderstand how the thing works under the hood? Are there two Rosettas?
On the Linux side, Rosetta is an executable that you hook up with binfmt to run AMD64 binaries, like how you might use Wine for windows binaries
However, to get performance benefits, you still need to have hardware support, and have Rosetta installed on macOS [1].
TFA is quite vague about what is being deprecated.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
When was the last time this was true? I think I gave up on the platform around the new keyboards, who clearly weren't made for typing, and the non-stop "Upgrade" and "Upgrade" notifications that you couldn't disable, just push forward into the future. Everything they've done since them seems to have been to impress the Average Joe, not for serving professionals.
"CIOs say Apple is now mission critical for the enterprise" [1]
[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/25/cios-say-apple-is-now-mission...
Happen to have some less biased source saying anything similar, ideally not sponsored content?
Realistically, people are still going to be deploying on x64 platforms for a long time, and given that Apple's whole shtick was to serve "professionals", it's really a shame that they're dropping the ball on developers like this. Their new containerization stuff was the best workflow improvement for me in quite a while.
[0] https://github.com/apple/containerization
[1] https://github.com/apple/container