If are a developer who recently got a Mac with Apple Silicon, one of the unexpected pain points you might have is that your toolchain around containers and virtualization could break. As explained in a Gingko Bioworks blog post, macOS and Docker support for emulating 64-bit Intel (x86_64 or x64) at the instruction level has improved since the launch of the first M1 chips in mid-2020, but you can occasionally can into low-level compatibility issues where such low-level emulation fails.