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The way I see it, unless you're developing exclusively for Apple platforms, it's not worth the effort to build something with Metal. There are translation layers like MoltenVK that can help, but that still requires a lot of effort for what is likely a very small market segment.

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It's not that hard. With SDL2/GLFW and MoltenVK you are 90% of the way to a cross-platform codebase.

That said I can understand why there's not a lot of investment in mac, since Apple's shown to be very developer-hostile as far as games, and the market is pretty small outside of mobile games which are kind of a separate thing.

There's some potential with m-series processors - now there's basically one SOC to target for everything from an iPad to a desktop, so it's sort of like consoles where there's a very consistent hardware target to develop against.

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