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**impala454** · June 20, 2020, 1:44pm

Adding more fuel for the fire here. Have been a Sublime Text license holder for for nearly ten years and love the fact that I can use it on every system I’ve been developing on, windows, linux, mac. I’ve recently added a Jetson Nano to my toolbox and found that I can no longer use Sublime Text. As a paying customer, it would be great to at least see some response in the form of a development roadmap or simply a “not doing” statement. My Sublime Text 4 license purchase (along with many other license purchases at my company) hinges on this issue.

**ianhd** · June 21, 2020, 4:36am

I run emacs in termux on my phone. I wish i could switch to sublime! I would buy an extra license just for that.

I would happily help port sublime to run on android, volunteering my time, and still pay for an aditional license.

**axelthegerman** · June 22, 2020, 7:22pm

Let’s see how long until there will be an ARM build for Mac - https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21295475/apple-mac-processors-arm-silicon-chips-wwdc-2020

**GameGenie710** · June 22, 2020, 7:43pm

+1 for an ARM build of Sublime Text, Macs are confirmed transitioning to Apple ARM-based silicon over the next couple years.

**clci** · June 23, 2020, 8:54am

Guys, let’s wait at least Apple starts selling the ARM based Macs. I’m pretty sure ST’s developers are fully aware of what Apple announced yesterday.

**GameGenie710** · June 23, 2020, 4:25pm

The whole point of Apple providing ARM development kits to developers is to empower them to start the work now so when customers get their hands on them apps like Sublime Text are already ready to go. This work isn’t going to go away.

**ThomSmith** · June 23, 2020, 6:30pm

A Mac OS ARM build is not the same as a Linux ARM build. I would guess that at some point in the not-too-distant future, the Mac build will be a fat binary. But this thread is requesting a Linux ARM build, which is another thing entirely.

There are two costs to a new Linux ARM build. The obvious cost is the work required to port the existing Linux release to ARM. This may be little work, or it may be a great deal. I doubt that the existence of a Mac ARM port would make it much easier, because if there’s ARM-incompatible code in the code base, then it’s probably concentrated in the platform-specific parts anyway.

The second and much larger cost is that of maintaining, building, and testing a new build from now until forever. Only the Sublime team knows (or can guess) what the added workload would be, and only they can determine whether it’s worth it. Any work spent on a new build type — present or future — must inevitably come out of work spent on other features.

**axelthegerman** · July 15, 2020, 9:38pm

that was 2013 and I totally agree that maintaining an ARM build is going to take away elsewhere.

And thank you @ThomSmith for your explanation about the irrelevance of ARM on Mac.

However, no update in 7 years on a popular (or maybe not?) feature request, that’s what upsets me. How about “we have decided it is still not worth it and we might reassess this next year”?

**bschaaf** · July 21, 2020, 7:01am

We currently have a private beta for experimental arm64 linux support (no 32bit). If you have a valid Sublime Text 3 license and are willing and able to test on your arm64 device(s) please send me a direct message.

**appelgriebsch** · July 23, 2020, 1:00pm

was trying, but the forum says it’s not allowed

**bschaaf** · July 23, 2020, 1:02pm

Odd, I have personal messages enabled. Maybe the first action for a user can’t be a direct message to stop spam. I’ve sent you a message.

**dan3264** · July 24, 2020, 5:42pm

@bschaaf I have a valid ST3 licence too and would like to test the arm build, may I join the beta too?

**manawyrm** · July 24, 2020, 10:19pm

@bschaaf:
Hi Benjamin,

(unfortunately the forum doesn’t let me send DMs, probably because my account has too few posts, so I’ll post this here)

I’d like to test the experimental arm64 build as well. I have a valid ST3 license and I’m part of the Manjaro ARM developer team.
Do you need any additional info?

**ozzzzysh** · August 15, 2020, 3:57pm

I can’t DM, but I’d like to test the ARM build. I have a Pi 4. I’ve gotten ST3 working in QEMU, but native would be sooo much better. I have a license to ST3 and I’m a software dev.

**wbond** · August 15, 2020, 9:19pm

Join the Discord server from the link in the pinned topic to get access to the ARM build.

**bokuno** · September 4, 2020, 5:22pm

ok, where is the discord link ?
i can’t find it.

**srbs** · September 4, 2020, 5:26pm

**Dygear** · December 5, 2020, 3:24am

Just wanted to say getting Sublime Text running on a Raspberry Pi 400 within Raspberry Pi OS was a breeze. Thanks to the team for getting that done. I think Sublime Text being what it is, easy to use for beginners but has some really nice advance options for later on after some learning this is the text editor I would want to give my kids.

**michalefty** · February 6, 2021, 10:21am

I’m also not able to send DM - but would also like to test ST3 on my Raspi. Thank you

**UltraInstinct05** · February 6, 2021, 10:37am

You can join the discord server linked in Resources and Bug Tracking and get the LInux ARM build for ST4. Note that the ARM builds are currently ST4+ only (ST3 won’t have an ARM port) and you need a valid license (or an existing ST3 license) to use ST4.

ARM build?