To clarify: my response above was about creating an M1 native version, in reaction to the remark that Apple boats that updating applications should be easy.
To keep Cura working with newer versions of OSes and drivers is an ongoing battle.
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That is unfortunately fairly unlikely.
Cura uses a lot of components that are not written or maintained by Ultimaker. A GUI framework called Qt, a language called Python. These are very bug projects, and it will take time before these run natively. But even then there is the problem that upgrading to newer versions of these dependencies mean that Cura will no longer work on older OS X versions.
Native support for M1 is slated for Qt 6.1. Version 6.0 of that framework requires OS X 10.15 or newer. Cura currently uses Qt 5.10, which supports OS X 10.11 and newer. Updating to a version of Qt that is native to M1 (once that is available) means dropping support for all Macs that still run 10.11 - 10.14. OS X 10.14 is only 2.5 year old.
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It is not only M1. My MBP is a year old and Cura stopped working this week for me. Same issues in regards to not having any Preview. Here is my processor. 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
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