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In this case it looks their work is based on another branch not yet merged (https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155 which adds support for Apple Silicon) - and the commit is from there.

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Yes, and the author was asked to base the PR on 5155:

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875#issuecomm...

And it looks like they're just going to set the PR to a draft until after 5155 is merged, so it will get cleaned up and be easier to review then:

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875#issuecomm...

HN is usually better about sussing out the real story.

Looking forward to that: I'm going to be needing to use OBS on Apple Silicon.

I honestly thought it already was running natively, it already runs super smooth in rosetta

Rosetta is incredibly impressive. And I guess it needed to be. The switch to ARM was going to be a hard sell without a fast x86 translation layer. I'm hoping though that devs don't use it as an excuse to never release ARM builds of their software. It would be good to have ARM builds across all the major operating systems.

I fully expect devs to drag their feet.

This happens with every transition in Apple history. It takes pulling the rug out completely before many devs will do it

Look at the Python transition, the carbon to cocoa transition, even the original Rosetta transition.

Github can point the PR at that branch and those commits won’t show up anymore.

That branch is on a different fork (PatTheMav's), so they wouldn't be able to do that in this case.

TIL. Thanks.

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