Comment by testdelacc1

> as soon Apple cuts off older systems by heavy force all of the Mac developers running in circles like lemmings

You can make this point without showing contempt for people who are trying their best to support their users. It’s very hard to support Apple platforms if the OS isn’t supported or if XCode drops support for it. There are no workarounds if no one offers CI hardware running that OS/arch.

Nor is there much incentive to try. Only a tiny minority are on the same OS as you, and with good reason. It was released 9 years ago and marked End-of-Life 6 years ago.

It costs time and money to support users like you, and open source volunteer driven projects sometimes don’t have that. Rust and other projects have added support for smaller platforms if passionate volunteers drive it forward. You’re welcome to do that, but it sounds like you’re happy with GCC.