I'm not so sure about the post-dating: the version numbers on the free-download optimising compiler and the Visual Studio noddy one are identical.
As for command line tools being more useful: well, the free-download compiler really is just a compiler - not even a make tool. So you'd have to use it with GNU make, which would then render your makefiles subtly incompatible with the nmake used by all other MSVC users.
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free-download optimising compiler and the Visual Studio noddy one
are identical.
As for command line tools being more useful: well, the free-download
compiler really is just a compiler - not even a make tool.
So you'd have to use it with GNU make, which would then render your
makefiles subtly incompatible with the
nmakeused byall other MSVC users.
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