There's something abhorrent about running gcc on windows.

Might want to tell that to the Rust programming language, Go, Zig and many others.

You think Windows dev shouldn't happen just because you don't like it?

They all use the LLVM backend -- nothing to do with gcc.

AFAIK there is no native GCC compiler for Windows. You have to use a pseudo-Linux environment like Cygwin or MinGW.

might want to check your facts before spouting nonsense. there is, and has been for many, many years. more than one in fact:

https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-gcc

https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/release/...