Consider automatically falling back to downloading x86-64 builds of nodejs on Apple Silicon machines if a native build isn't available.

[hutchisr]

If you try to install an older version of node without a precompiled arm binary, nvm will automatically download the x86-64 version instead. asdf-nodejs will instead try (and almost certainly fail) to compile the version from the source and to get a precompiled version the user has to manually specify the architecture by running $ arch -x86_64 asdf install nodejs <version> instead which is much less user friendly.

[augustobmoura]

asdf-nodejs currently already tries to build the said version from source as a fallback. I'm not sure which behavior would be the most useful for mac users. It seems like most people are content with either building it or running arch -x86_64 for installing the x64 version

If this gets enough traction, we can try to think something about it, maybe an environment variable to control it

[gonejack]

It would be better to install x86_64 by default, because there are lot of precompiled npm dependencies in x86_64 that can not be invoked by nodejs in ARM.

[kitsunde]

It would be a lot worse if we sometimes installed x86 ones and sometimes ARM ones without explicitly passing that as an option.

This could effectively be opting into a race condition where if the x86 binary gets published before the arm one, some users would be on x86 instead of ARM.