Company
Date Published
Author
Varun Sethi
Word count
500
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Apple's M4 Pro chip, an advancement in Apple Silicon technology, offers substantial improvements in speed, efficiency, and performance for iOS and macOS developers, making it ideal for complex software development workflows. CircleCI's integration of M4 Pro support allows development teams to utilize the fastest cloud-hosted Apple silicon chips, enhancing build speed, memory management, and testing processes. The M4 Pro is available in two machine types on CircleCI: Medium and Large, with varying resources, and is compatible with multiple versions of Xcode, facilitating seamless updates to development configurations. This transition from M1 and M2 Pro to M4 Pro provides a significant boost in productivity and quality, positioning teams to deliver applications rapidly and at scale, while maintaining the ease and reliability expected from contemporary CI/CD platforms.