Windows development: MinGW64 or MSVC ?

[Benjamin Thaut via digitalmars-d-ldc]

I personally think that putting time into the MSVC target would 
be better invested. Using the MSVC toolchain you have a much 
better tooling, especially debugging and profiling. There are a 
lot of tools which expect you to put out pdb debugging 
information and mingw does not do that. Also personally I don't 
know anyone who uses mingw on windows. Usually mingw is only used 
if some open source project also wants to support windows but has 
no "real" Windows developers. Everyone I know who makes money 
with software development on windows uses Visual Studio and MSVC.