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		wmf on April 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strongly Encouraging XCode Lets Apple Switch Archi... Adobe cares, because Flash CS5 only generates ARM code, not secret-crackpot-processor code. In theory.

Zak on April 15, 2010 [–]

If this was their goal, they could just mandate a specific C compiler. You can originally write in Scheme, translate it to C with Chicken and use whatever C compiler you want to compile the result. There would be no affect on any platform-switching plans Apple might have.

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