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Give it some time. The more these devices get available the better the software gets. I remember back when AMD64 cpus freshly emerged and you would try to compile some bigger or special software it simply didn't work and you had to compile it for 32bit, e.g. Wine.

There are always rough edges on other platforms, but these machines are good workhorses -- and would be an excellent choice for further development, to smooth out aarch64 support.

I wish these machines (or Apple Silicon with Asahi Linux) had existed at the time I worked on GHC and aarch64 support was starting to take shape. Would have been a game changer in terms of productivity...

At this scale you are probably going to use Erlang instead

Indeed, that's a very good match. Better still because it would allow you to pretend you have larger machines than you really have at the penalty of some slowdown.