> That issue is much more complicated than what most FOSS projects deal with. R or Julia would have the exact same problems if they cared at all about MSVC. >

> That issue is much more complicated than what most FOSS projects deal with. R or Julia would have the exact same problems if they cared at all about MSVC. > I agree with you, building a lot of non-Windows stuff on Windows sucks. It's getting better, though. I actually didn't say that at all. It's the Microsoft dev tools that suck. GCC works fine.