Hello, Mathieu,
That’s true, but, for my case, one of my projects uses many other libraries which are difficult to find precompiled with VS. For pratical reasons, I opted for MinGW64 because there are public repositories of precompiled DLLs that can be managed with the pacman tool in MSYS2, which is much like pip, conda, npm, Maven, Conan and others for other languages and tool sets.
best,
Paulo