Supported on M1 Macs?: Python, Jupyter Notebook, Postgres, MySQL, Airflow

[MrMitty]

I'm an aspiring coder. I have learned / am still learning the technologies mentioned above. For Python, I primarily use pandas, requests, matplotlib, SQL Alchemy. Are all of these fully supported on Apple Silicon? I currently have a 2019 16" Intel MBP. That machine is quite nice since it has 64GB RAM but it tends to struggle with very large Notebooks and for some reason, Zoom and Teams.

I'm not a professional developer at all. I'm still taking CS classes before (hopefully) starting an MS in CS next year. I don't think I'll be doing anything advanced like ML but I do want to learn mobile app development.

I'm thinking about getting an M2 MBP but only if all the software above is fully supported. If you use the tools above, can you please confirm? And can you install directly or do you need workarounds / package managers like homebrew / miniforge?

[DrMacintosh]

Any x86 Binary should run just fine via Rosetta. Apple Silicon has hardware accelerators for this task. If you get an Apple Silicon Mac, I think you'll love it. I'm even considering one for personal use, but losing Bootcamp might be just too much to give up right now. 

[MrMitty]

So, what happens when you pip install packages in python? Should they all work because of emulation? 

 

Also, I forgot to ask about R. Does the ARM release work as expected? I have a project in R and I will likely take more classes that use it. 

[igormp]

15 hours ago, MrMitty said:

I'm an aspiring coder. I have learned / am still learning the technologies mentioned above. For Python, I primarily use pandas, requests, matplotlib, SQL Alchemy. Are all of these fully supported on Apple Silicon? I currently have a 2019 16" Intel MBP. That machine is quite nice since it has 64GB RAM but it tends to struggle with very large Notebooks and for some reason, Zoom and Teams.

I'm not a professional developer at all. I'm still taking CS classes before (hopefully) starting an MS in CS next year. I don't think I'll be doing anything advanced like ML but I do want to learn mobile app development.

I'm thinking about getting an M2 MBP but only if all the software above is fully supported. If you use the tools above, can you please confirm? And can you install directly or do you need workarounds / package managers like homebrew / miniforge?

Python and most of its packages should work fine, alon with jupyter and whatnot. Otherwise you can use rosetta, but it shouldn't be needed.

 

PG works out of the box, so does MySQL and Airflow (with 2.3+). If you're using those with docker, you can just use a flag to build an image as x86 so you can run it under rosetta, like so: 

docker build --platform linux/amd64  .