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> I notice that's in the past tense.

Yes, but that's because I moved companies. The bank in question still uses Windows.

> I know there are some heavyweight applications out there like video editing and Engineering CAD with finite state analysis that need raw metal performance.

WASM and WebGL etc (or whatever the newest developments are called these days) are there to make working in the browser faster.

Btw, if you have beefy enough servers, it's not the 'weight' of your application that's the problem, but the latency.

> For those that are left - are they going to survive the transition to ARM and RISC-V?

Just recompile, or use the automatic translation of binaries that comes with your OS.




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