So far, the key interest for me have been the potential drastic improvement in battery life. I’m almost willing to sacrifice a bit of short term productivity to get there. I don’t know that the experiences sound any worse that trying to get my favorite development environments productive on Windows or a non-Debian flavor of Linux:
JetBrains and Xcode-centric perspective (11/23/2020):
https://medium.com/before-semicolon/is-m1-mac-worthy-or-good-for-developers-developer-review-3ed832f4105e
Rubyist perspective (11/25/2020):
https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/a-rubyist-s-apple-m1-review
macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon · Issue #7857 · Homebrew/brew · GitHub (closed as of 12/26/2020):
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857
TypeScript/JavaScript/Rust (12/3/2020):
https://dev.to/redhoodjt1988/how-to-setup-development-environment-on-new-macbook-pro-m1-3kh
Rails’ DHH’s own experience (12/28/2020):
DriftingRuby tweet: