Will the Pro line of laptops continue on Intel or is it the whole line?
If it's the whole line, it's either going to be very good for developer tooling on ARM or it's going to be a nightmare.
I've been developing on Windows 10 ARM with WSL and it's pretty great, but it's not 100% there. I've had to switch back to x64 due to some tools not having ARM builds.
That is really interesting. Most of the developers I know use Mac OS for nodejs tooled web development, and they use Visual Studio Code. VS Code hasn't got an official ARM build yet.
Whoops, I missed this! Can't wait to try it on the Galaxy Book S when I get home! :)
EDIT: Vscode arm build works GREAT, and it has WSL and SSH remote extensions too! This is fantastic.
I can move back from my x64 machine for development again! I'm using Edge, Windows Terminal, WSL and now VS Code all with native arm on Windows 10, amazing!
Now... we just need Windows 10 ARM builds that run on Raspberry Pi and how much fun is that going to be!
Also note that Apple AArch64 (ie arm64) has a slightly different calling convention than Linux aarch64, which is going to influence pretty much any compiler/jit/runtime here.
Well, that depends. Deep inside a JIT it doesn’t really matter what the calling convention is because the code only needs to interact with itself, and can use whatever convention it wishes there. Even outside of that the changes Apple has made are fairly minor-a register here and there, aside from variadics.
Will the Pro line of laptops continue on Intel or is it the whole line?
If it's the whole line, it's either going to be very good for developer tooling on ARM or it's going to be a nightmare.
I've been developing on Windows 10 ARM with WSL and it's pretty great, but it's not 100% there. I've had to switch back to x64 due to some tools not having ARM builds.