Windows Arm Support

[itsjoshpark]

Hi! Sorry if this was mentioned in another place (I didn't find an existing Issue). Are there plans to natively support Volta builds for Windows on Arm?

[charlespierce]

Hi @godly-devotion, thanks for the question! At the moment, we don't have any immediate plans to support ARM Windows, primarily because Node itself doesn't provide pre-built binaries for ARM Windows and Volta doesn't currently support building from Source (that's tracked in #911). If either of those changes, however, we definitely will look into providing an ARM Windows build. There may be extra complications around building in CI, but we'll investigate those when we come to that point.

[iNViTiON]

Node 20 now provides an official native ARM build. https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/v20-release-announce#official-support-for-arm64-windows

IMO, Volta might not need an ARM-native build, since it's just a slim execution layer that doesn't significantly impact performance. Supporting Node's native ARM installation should take precedence.