<story><title>W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/05/15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Advice to young devs: If you don&amp;#x27;t have a good professional reason why you absolutely need to use gnu tools on windows, and you have no technical reason not to use Visual Studio, use Visual Studio. It&amp;#x27;s good enough, and for me, even good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmiskovic</author><text>Your advice would have more weight if you provided some arguments. GNU tools are also good enough, and this kit seems like a lot easier way to get started with your C lab exercise than installing Visual Studio and getting lost in it.&lt;p&gt;I dislike Visual Studio because to set things up you have to compare online screenshots to your settings and click around multiple tabs of configurations. In the end you (as beginner) don&amp;#x27;t know what libraries get included and if it will work on another computer. GNU tools are text-driven, so easier to replicate and to reason about.</text></comment>
<story><title>W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/05/15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Advice to young devs: If you don&amp;#x27;t have a good professional reason why you absolutely need to use gnu tools on windows, and you have no technical reason not to use Visual Studio, use Visual Studio. It&amp;#x27;s good enough, and for me, even good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>That has always been the case actually, since Windows 3.x, except that back then probably Borland would be a better option.&lt;p&gt;Using such tools for me was only to do university work at home.</text></comment>