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Re:Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these... by can16358p on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:47PM (#31077021)
With ARM adoption it might again be an option. I'm using Windows ARM in Parallels on M1 Mac and use Visual Studio perfectly.

Microsoft says "it might not work" yet it works flawlessly. YMMV though.

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Re:Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these... by MBCook on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:31PM (#31079516)
But isn’t a huge part of Windows the ecosystem of applications? That largely doesn’t exist on ARM though correct? Or does Windows have an emulation solution built in for that.
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Re:Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these... by can16358p on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:07AM (#31079675)
Yes, emulation.

Visual Studio 2022 is x64 and is running under emulation in an ARM environment (M1 Max) and is working perfectly.

While it's not native performance, it's close and the gap will even get narrower by time.

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