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ELF might be weirder, but as an end user I much prefer it compared to having to deal with implibs and declspecs and all that nonsense on Windows.



Stuck in Windows 3.x days? Most of that isn't needed for quite some time.

Also, COFF isn't Windows only, it originated in the IBM world, and AIX is notorious for being a UNIX that doesn't favour ELF by default, even thought it supports it as well.


That's how mingw works today. Obviously I don't use actual Windows.


Then don't complain what what you don't know, I guess.

mingw is stuck on UNIX ways and old fashioned tooling


All the Windows code I see still has declspec, resource files, and something still has to create an implib.


What can I say, plenty of legacy knowledge out there.




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