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On Windows Visual Studio is still very much the default in the context of Windows only developers. Some people/projects prefer to use MinGW-W64 builds with an
by kozukumi 11y ago
On Windows Visual Studio is still very much the default in the context of Windows only developers.
Some people/projects prefer to use MinGW-W64 builds with an IDE such as Code::Blocks, CodeLite, QtCreator, etc.
With VS Community coming out last year it has given more people/projects access to a full Visual Studio environment which is very nice IMHO. I have not seen many FOSS projects switch to using Visual Studio and MSVC (the short name for the Visual C++ Compiler) over MinGW-W64 though. I suspect this is just down to "if it ain't broke" though more than anything.