For the OP, many projects are a "mess" that don't agree with his opinions. "bash is a mess, git is a mess, cygwin feels wrong..." And M-Windows is a pristine

For the OP, many projects are a "mess" that don't agree with his opinions. "bash is a mess, git is a mess, cygwin feels wrong..." And M-Windows is a pristine example of orderly genius? I support his right to his opinions. But here he is, running Docker and a pile of opinions to build himself a portable C&C++ env on M-Windows. (To use gcc, no less.) Software in general is a mess. But that doesn't prevent great tools from being developed. There's a reason for the success of GNU and FOSS.