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by tavert 2942 days ago
And that choice of compiler has caused endless headaches for the NumPy and SciPy communities, see e.g. https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Numerical-software-on-Wi... and https://mingwpy.github.io/motivation.html

VLC's windows binaries are also built with mingw-w64 gcc last I checked, that is likely used even more widely than numpy.