> installing C/C++ cross compilers and cross linkers are painful on Windows
Developing on Windows is painful for everyone, dependency management is hell, everyone have to ship their dlls so you end up with dozens of zlib in the system, it's basically docker-land without the cool name. I don't think we can solve it, just look into the go instructions for windows "download this, uncompress there, add to your path". There is a reason why Microsoft added WSL. Installing LLVM on windows is also painful. However these are issues at the packaging level, it's not obvious that tightly coupling Nim compiler with a toolchain will make packaging any easier. And it comes with downsides that you highlighted as well.
