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No. The full-fat Visual Studio is native arm64 nowadays!

Do need to have Parallels and Windows installation on macOS. But other than that, can run a native version of Visual Studio on ARM64.

As they say on Wikipedia: [Citation needed]

Where can I get this 'full fat' ARM build of VS? I'll settle for a Win64-ARM release, but I'll personally provision a botnet to upvote you to Mars in case you point me to an Apple-Silicon-on-MacOS DMG...

The same place you download the x86 build: visualstudio.com

See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/arm64-visual-stu...

Right. And I run Windows for ARM64 (WoA64) in Parallels on my M3 Mac, and install VS in it (ARM64 version) and runs fine.

Thank you so much, as you can see, I truly didn't know that. Maybe tuning out Microsoft messaging to the max wasn't the best decision after all...

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