> Go 1.16 adds support of 64-bit ARM architecture on macOS (also known as Apple Silicon) with GOOS=darwin, GOARCH=arm64.
A bit ahead of what I think most people expected. This should accelerate a few other projects progress. (Docker being the big one)
Yes: (at least) 16 brew core formulae have status "Re-check when go works" (some of them: circleci, consul, docker, docker-machine, helm, kubernetes-cli, packer, terraform)
The final release is due in Feb.
> The Go language will support Apple Silicon in their 1.16 release which is targeted for February 2021.
That article is a big part of why I said this was a bit earlier than expected. This ticks off one of the concerns Docker devs had about the next version.
I'm not sure why you think the M1 is any more closed than Intel. It's a CPU core owned by a corporation. You can't license either design for personal or commercial use. If you are using x86 you are lining Intel's pockets (and likely Microsoft's). If you are using M1, you are lining Apple's pockets.
1: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c15593197453b8bf90fc3a90...