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Currently, node on M1 macOS doesn’t work well except node@15.
If you using node@12 built on arm64 architecture, it may be crashed on some scripts such as https://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git

You can check it if you run test cases in long.js repository.

If you would like to know on which your node is built, please follow this:

$ node

Welcome to Node.js v12.21.0.
Type ".help" for more information.
>
> process.arch
'arm64'

The above example means the node binary is built for arm64 architecture (Apple Silicon M1 chip). If node is run on rosetta2, it will display ‘x64’.

I have tested some test cases in long.js and node.js source repository.

  • Node@15 for arm64: no problem
  • Node@12 for arm64: some errors in long.js and node.js test cases
  • Node@12 for x64: no problem

As I know, node@12 for arm64 works well for some scripts, but some scripts has been crashed such as long.js.

Edit

On June 21th, 2021, node@14 on Homebrew has passed long.js test cases for arm64. (v14.17.1)
Of course, node@16 also supports it.

But, node@12 still has errors on them. (v12.22.1)

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