As someone who uses Python on a Windows box, I can count a few times where I ended up having to find binaries that were pre-compiled, to install a package from

As someone who uses Python on a Windows box, I can count a few times where I ended up having to find binaries that were pre-compiled, to install a package from Pypi. While that isn't the case for the majority of the packages I've used, I certainly wouldn't say it's something an end-user should/would do. Same goes for npm, too.