<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iopq</author><text>Rust on Windows used to run on Mingw, but has since moved on&lt;p&gt;It made it a lot easier in many ways to just compile a thing and have it work without thinking about mingw and interfacing C from mingw</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zig: Drop MinGW-w64</title><url>https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9998</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbk</author><text>That’s the opposite of our experience on VLC and Firefox was sharing our opinion: mingw-w64 people are skilled, nice and very clever and think about all use cases.&lt;p&gt;This is how we are able to support configurations that even MS does not support…&lt;p&gt;Also, a contrario from what this threads seems to say, the Windows SDK headers are faaaar from being open source compatible</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zig: Drop MinGW-w64</title><url>https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9998</url></story>