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Factor 0.102 adds native ARM64 support and RISC-V compiler backends

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Factor 0.102 adds native ARM64 support across macOS, Linux, and Windows, plus RISC-V Linux ports with optimizing compiler backends. These changes matter to engineers tracking language runtime portability across newer architectures.

What

Factor 0.102 adds native ARM64 support for macOS, Linux and Windows, plus a new GTK4 UI backend and RISC-V Linux ports.

How

The RISC-V ports include optimizing compiler backends, foreign calls and callbacks, and support in both the C++ and Zig VMs.

Why it matters

The release's architecture and runtime changes matter to engineers porting language tools and maintaining cross-platform systems.

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