On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:26 AM Carl Kleffner via NumPy-Discussion <
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> There are some niche Windows 32-bit applications I'm aware of. However,
> none of theses are related to scientific computing. Two
> scipy  questionaries related to this topic:
> releasing-or-not-32-bit-windows-wheels
> <https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/releasing-or-not-32-bit-windows-wheels/282>
>  and Poll: availability for 32bit Windows scipy binaries in future
> <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/16286> raised no red flags
> concerning removing 32-bit. And these inquiries were made almost four years
> ago!
>
> There is only one webassembly support (pyidide, pyscript) which may be in
> some form relevant to this question, as wasm32 is still the dominant
> platform.
>

There are several CI jobs for 32-bit platforms, including Pyodide (for
which we also release nightly wheels) and armhf. Also, distros like Debian
need support for several 32-bit platforms. We're not dropping any
source-level support here.

Cheers,
Ralf


> Cheers
>
> Carl
>
> Am Di., 12. Mai 2026 um 09:34 Uhr schrieb Matthew Brett via
> NumPy-Discussion <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 6:52 AM matti picus via NumPy-Discussion
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 3:42 AM Charles R Harris via NumPy-Discussion
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi All,
>> > >
>> > > I would like to propose dropping 32 bit windows support in the NumPy
>> 2.6 branch. It is time, Steam is dropping support, and most downstream
>> projects dropped support some time ago. We can still test it, perhaps, but
>> the world isn't going that way.
>> > >
>> > > Chuck
>> >
>> > +1 from me
>> > Matti
>>
>> Worth floating with Steve Dower?  https://stevedower.id.au/about ;
>> https://github.com/zooba
>>
>> I seem to remember him saying, quite a few years ago, that 32-bit
>> Windows was in practice only important for Windows ARM users running
>> the 32-bit Intel binaries under emulation.  Now there are Windows ARM
>> wheels (and CI), so I bet that there are a very small number of people
>> who need these.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthew
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