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Arguably, any 32-bit binaries that still need to be supported are old now, and a pure 64-bit environment could afford to run them in emulation/JIT translation/whatever without noticeable performance issues.


They only remove support for 32-bit OSes, not for running 32 bit code in general:

> To further clarify, 32-bit x86 user-space software would continue to work on modern 64-bit operating systems with X86-S.

A lot of Windows binaries, including most Electron apps, are still 32 bit, and are run unmodified on 64 bit Windows.




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