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		nulld3v 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU Yeah, I too was surprised to find the dev experience very good: all JetBrains IDEs work well, Visual Studio appears to work fine, and most language toolchains seem well supported.

MBCook 9 days ago [–]

JetBrains stuff (love it!) is built on Java, so I’m not terribly surprised. I don’t know how much native code there is though.

Plus they’ve been through the Apple Silicon change, so it’s not the first time they’ve been on non-x86 either.

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