chloevpin/kiro-arm64

This project is an unofficial repackage of Kiro IDE, an AI assisted code editor made by Amazon. Amazon ships Kiro only for ordinary 64 bit Intel and AMD chips, so people who own newer ARM based Linux laptops, like a Snapdragon X Elite machine or a Raspberry Pi class device, cannot install it directly. The repository contains the build scripts that take Amazon's official installer, swap in the parts that are specific to the processor, and produce a new installer that runs on ARM64 Debian or Ubuntu. The technical trick is straightforward. Most of Kiro is JavaScript and HTML that runs the same on any processor, and that part is left untouched. The pieces that do depend on the processor are the Electron runtime, which is the browser engine that hosts the editor, and eleven small native add ons for things like terminal emulation, file system watching, and local database access. The scripts download a matching ARM64 build of Electron and recompile each of the eleven add ons from source for ARM64, then bolt everything back together into a standard .deb package complete with desktop icon. Users who just want to install it can download a prebuilt .deb from the project's Releases page and run dpkg -i. Users who want to build their own copy place the official Kiro .deb in their Downloads folder and run make all, which takes about two minutes and roughly four gigabytes of disk space. There are also individual make targets for each stage of the build, plus install, uninstall, and clean helpers. The build scripts are released under the MIT license. Kiro itself remains Amazon's proprietary software and must be downloaded separately.