Ehh... the answer is it kind of works well, but it really depends on what you're doing since you're running an x64 application (Visual Studio) on an ARM version of Windows running on a Mac M1 in parallels.

.NET development and in particular stepping through debugging is particularly slow, though I guess we should be happy it works at all.

Didn't Microsoft just finally announce an ARM native version of Visual Studio?

And Arm64 version of .NET Framework (4.8.1). .NET Framework is considered legacy and 4.8 was supposed to be the final version. Not sure whether it means they foresee faster Windows-on-ARM adoption. Or slower .NET Framework to .NET Core transition. Or both.

Do you mean the MacOS Visual Studio or the ARM windows version? I’ve been using the MacOS apple silicon build for several months now.

Grandparent was referring to Visual Studio on Windows ARM.

> tough the M1 CPU cannot do magic

TBF, I think the M1 CPUs crossed the magic barrier already