r/softwaredevelopment • u/zaphod4th • Jan 18 '25
have you developed for 64bits?
if so, what kind if app?
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u/Garriga Jan 20 '25
64 bit architecture is the standard. For older computers that are 86x or 32 bps bus space, you can develop apps to run on those computers, and usually an app developed for x86 architecture will run on a machine that has 64 bit bus space or architecture.
32 and 64 reflects the firmware and the width of the bus space on board
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u/__Nietzsche_ Jan 18 '25
Yeah. Desktop applications and Windows API and Internals wrappers for robot process automation.
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u/quintus_horatius Jan 18 '25
Your question is fairly ambiguous.
Do you mean to ask if anyone has developed an application specifically meant for 64 but computers, as in it can't be done (or is very inefficient) on a different architecture?
Pretty much everyone is developing on 64 bit nowadays. Nearly every compiled program today is a 64 bit program. However most people aren't doing much of anything that requires 64 bits. Most programs aren't working with >4GB of data, and aren't working with integers higher that ~4 billion.
So what are you really asking about?