Hello, I wasn't sure where to ask this question but I was wondering:
Are there are any plans for releasing QIIME2 and all of the associated packages for ARM-based systems (e.g., M1 Macs or other ARM-based platforms)?
It seems like ARM-based systems are going to grow in popularity. Am I wrong in thinking that deploying QIIME2 for ARM-based systems would increase the speed of certain tasks?
Uh, I'm not sure arm is faster than x86, but can be cheaper and would let more people run qiime on their new Macs!
For context, it looks like osx-arm64 and and aarch64 are an order of magnitude less popular than Windows x86 and OSX x86, and two orders of magnitude less popular than x86 linux.