these seems overly dramatic...i just setup a windows 11 box and installed the needed tools quite quickly via winget and I was up and running

Nix on Windows when...

Please people, stop trying to fix windows and just let it die.

Why not just use Linux?

I like the tool, I like the article, but I'd prefer it it was half as long but without AI touch.

To me it seems as if Microsoft wants to make it deliberately harder to have software developers. Now - I installed all the required things and compiled on Windows too, but it is very annoying compared to Linux. Microsoft should simply have ONE default build, e. g. "download this and 80% of developers will be happy". No need for a gazillion checkboxes.

I'm not trying to diminish or take away from this post but Visual Studio is an IDE and is not necessary to build an App.

You just need the required build tools.

If you've ever had to setup a CI/CD pipeline for a Visual Studio project then you've had to do this.

just use w64devkit, it's nice

> msvcup is inspired by a small Python script written by Mārtiņš Možeiko.

This script is great. Just use it. The title saying “I fixed” is moderately offensive glory stealing.

Windows Native is fine. People in that space are comfortable with it.

What needs to be fixed is the valley between unix and windows development for cross-os/many-compiler builds, so one that does both can work seamlessly.

It's not an easy problem and there are lots of faux solutions that seem to fix it all but don't (in builds, the devil is in edge cases).