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Is it not possible to compile editors like emacs or Sublime Text for ARM64? I know very little about native programming but surely GCC/Clang/Visual C++ have ARM

• ryukafalz 6y ago
  It certainly is! Not sure what the situation is on Windows but Linux distros that have ARM versions typically have nearly all the same software that you’d expect on x86 in their repos. (I’m thinking of Debian in particular here, but I suspect others are similar.)
• soapdog 6y ago
  It is a chicken and egg problem. Many languages do not yet support Windows on ARM, so you can't rely on them to build stuff for the new platform. For example there is no official release of NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Perl, on the platform. Lots of FOSS rely on gnu stuff which is usually compiled on windows using mingw/msys2/cygwin, all of which are not available for Windows on ARM. So you can't easily port stuff. You can run Visual Studio and cross-compile from ia32 to arm64 on a Surface Pro X but that is unsupported by Microsoft who wants you to have two machines, one running x64 and compiling stuff and another running arm64 and testing stuff. That is unreasonable for small independent developers. So until the development ecosystem is a bit better, porting stuff will still have a lot of friction and that is why for now, IMHO, every port needs to be cherished.