Developing on Windows: Comparing Native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL

I've never bothered with WSL because MSYS2 has always suited my needs. It did have a bit of a learning curve when I first started using it, although I think the documentation has improved since then. (However I do dislike the obscure `pacman` incantations versus the plain English of `apt`, which causes some friction if you're coming from Debian-based Linux.)