Accidental Tech Podcast · Monday, July 27, 2026
The ATP hosts John and Casey shared their overwhelmingly positive experiences using Swift and Xcode on Apple Silicon Macs. John described compiling as "lightning fast" and the experience as "snappy and responsive," while Casey called it a "substantial upgrade" that made their development process "so much more pleasant."
“So I've been developing apps for iOS and Mac, and I have M1 MacBook Air. Uh, so basically, yeah, it works really well.”
“It works really well, especially for compiling. Compiling is lightning fast. Building the app is lightning fast.”
“So I use a, uh, a 16-inch MacBook Pro, uh, with an M1 Pro chip, and I've been doing a lot of native macOS development, uh, native iOS development, and yeah, it's fantastic.”
“It's incredibly fast, it's incredibly snappy.”
“It's a it's a substantial upgrade from the Intel chips.”