[saghm]

> Also a lot of more modern tools I’ve tried to build in recent months do not give a crap about cross compilation as a use case

On the other hand, more modern languages like Rust and Go tend to have a single standard library and compiler that can be used across basically any common operating system, whereas trying to use gcc/libstdc++ or clang/libc++ on Windows can be an ordeal, and using MSVC on Unix is essentially not an option at all. Cross compilation for other architectures might be a bit more work, but the majority of developers don't have to worry about that very much, whereas support across Linux, MacOS, and Windows is a lot more common.