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nRF Connect / VS Code broken for M1 Mac users

user17798

There are at least several show-stopper level issues with your nRF Connect SDK and VS Code for M1 Mac users

First not supporting the native VS Code app is annoying and forces us to use a much slower non-native Intel based build

Second - even after installing that, I'm stuck forever in nRF Connect for Desktop on « Checking if VS Code and dependencies are installed »



Third after going around that and installing directly in VS Code [ which incidentally seems to kind of work in the M1 based VS Code ] I get a lot of «

[west]: warning: templates not found in /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.32.0_1/share/git-core/ » warnings

Fourth - just with the basic hello_world sample app, compilation fails because zephyr.h and sys/printk.h are not found

Fifth - spaces and other perfectly valid characters in filenames/directory names are not allowed 
I definitely / strongly prefer this to the SEGGER studio requirement ( which is annoying because of the licensing hoop and just because I don't want to use or mandate our developers use a specific IDE ) but there are a lot of issues that desperately need to be addressed before this is viable in production for anyone who doesn't have a lot of time and resources to burn getting things to work
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  • 0 in reply to user17798

    We rant and rant ... but I don't think Nordic really cares about us ...

    90% of their end users are windows based.

    But Apple Silicon Macs are taking over, at some point I hope there will be a tipping point.

  • 0 in reply to user63521

    Apple Silicon is great but unfortunately I can't imagine that Apple will magically get massive market share especially among engineers who have weird longstanding biases against Macs and macOS - especially given that there is a bit of a bootstrap problem. Even Apple doesn't use Macs to design their hardware because all of the best CAD tools are PC / workstation based, and they have their own chips and internal tools and toolchains for software development so we're stuck with hoping that companies like Nordic will put in the effort to take care of niche customers and although you and I think we're using the best hardware, I get why they'd make a business decision to neglect us and leave us floundering

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