Yeah, but those are the not-annoying ones. I don't care to spend 10 days installing 10 versions of the "Microsoft(c)(r) C++ Redistributable" or whatever it is called and 25 KBs in the right order with reboots in between on slowdows just to get a fucking compiler in CI. Compare this with a 5 second apt-get install mingw-gcc and done.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sure, but the comment I was responding to seemed to be operating under the misunderstanding that there were no Windows maintainers at all, rather than just no maintainers for the GNU toolchain. In particular, the following remark gives the impression that they believe that no one at Microsoft is supporting Rust on Windows at all:

This is where is shake my head at corporate support. Microsoft has 200,000 employees. They cannot spare one for Rust?

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Right. My mistake.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I did misunderstand. Thank you.