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Re:Zig: Drop MinGW-w64 by cyber_kinetist on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:00PM (#29615656)
My last experience with MinGW-w64 was when I was trying to compile my C++ simulation code in Windows and finding out that AVX instructions were not working because the compiler had misalignment-related bugs. (The issue is still open in https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1209)

MinGW/MSYS certainly had appeal to former Linux devs who didn't want to touch the horrors of MSVC, but Zig (with its included Clang compiler/runtime) might end up being a better solution for people trying to compile C/C++ code on Windows in a stable manner.

Re:Zig: Drop MinGW-w64 by colejohnson66 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:16PM (#29615833)
Wow. “mingwandroid” is coming off as pretty rude:

> Is it really so difficult to determine the correct place to report issues to?