# Support wanted/needed for alternative platforms? E.g. Haiku, what's needed?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/support-wanted-needed-for-alternative-platforms-e-g-haiku-whats-needed/19279
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/support-wanted-needed-for-alternative-platforms-e-g-haiku-whats-needed/19279 "2019-01-04T18:53:46Z")
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/support-wanted-needed-for-alternative-platforms-e-g-haiku-whats-needed/19279/2 "2019-01-04T19:09:09Z")

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You opened another “will Julia run on…” topic recently where you did not participate in any of the subsequent discussion:

> [@Anyone using Julia for drones (or other embedded)? Any forseen problems?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyone-using-julia-for-drones-or-other-embedded-any-forseen-problems/18755):
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> [I do know about the general garbage collection issue, that I’m not worried about; solved for robotics, see case studies at Julia Computing.] Any hardware/OS combination a problem or has been proven to work, and I mostly have this one in mind (seems this CPU/RAM/flash/eMMC capacity is sufficient and Julia would at least work on it with Linux): [https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/drones/development-drones/intel-aero-compute-board-guide.pdf](https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/drones/development-drones/intel-aero-compute-board-guide.pdf) In addition to several fixed-fu…

I wonder if this one is going anywhere. It was made pretty clear that running Julia on other hardware and OSs than currently supported would require a lot of ongoing work even when it is theoretically feasible. Are you seriously considering to provide this, or do you know someone who does?

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