Drop support for 32bit architectures: armeabi-v7a and x86?

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Should support for 32bit targets be dropped in favor for simpler build maintenance?

64bit x86-64 emerged 24 years ago and arm64-v8a 12. How much 32bit hardware can there still be? Hardware that this codebase compiles against to with available toolchains?

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I cannot get 32bit Android target to build with the NDK tools that get installed with latest Android Studio. If I remove "armeabi-v7a" and "x86" from Stride.Native.targets, building works. Is there any reason to keep these supported? See.

[manio143]

It's hard to say if there's anyone using 32bit Stride builds - I would guess probably not. If they cause problems building and the market share of operating systems that require those platforms is not existent then we should remove them. Unless somebody whose interested in building for them comes along to help support it.

[NicusorN5]

x86 systems should be considered ancient. I support removing x86 support for Stride.

[tagcode]

32bit arm exists only in nano scale embedded systems that will not run stride due to their constrains on memory, performance, gpu and purpose.

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Raspberry Pi has had 64bit hardware since Pi 3 (2016), so 7 years ago.