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Most popular languages have supported Arm for many years already, on Linux (and more recently, some of them on Android and iOS). > Rust just brought their arm
by Liquid_Fire 6y ago
Most popular languages have supported Arm for many years already, on Linux (and more recently, some of them on Android and iOS).
> Rust just brought their arm support to the tier 1 support level
(for Linux)
- fulafel 6y agoYep, most things were ported in the first wave of linux arm enthusiasm around the netwinder/ipaq craze 20 years ago.
- cesarb 6y agoThe "netwinder/ipaq craze 20 years ago" would be 32-bit ARM (AArch32), while AFAIK this new chip is 64-bit ARM (AArch64); everything has to be ported again to this new ISA (though yeah, most things were already ported for Linux on AArch64).
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- fulafel 6y agoYep, in the intervening time ARM on Linux became popular enough that doing the required compiler backend work for 64-bit ARM in GCC, LLVM etc by commercial interests was a given, there was eg a big push for ARM on servers from various vendors. MS even ported Windows Server. Eg Hotspot/OpenJDK was ported in 2015.