HACKER Q&A
📣 _1tan

Why aren't more native apps compiled for ARM aswell?


The new Microsoft Surface Pro X seems to suffer heavily from a lack of ARM-compiled apps.

I am not much of a developer (light web-dev) and do not understand why this is so hard to provide. Don't most compilers support ARM at this point? What prevents adoption at this point? Who's working on this issue?


  👤 wmf Accepted Answer ✓
After you compile your app for ARM you'd also want to test it, but not many developers want to buy a separate ARM system just for testing for a small minority of Windows users.