alt Hacker News> The Visual Studio toolchain does have LTSC and stable releases - no one seems to know about them though.
You only get access to the LTSC channel if you have a license for at least Visual Studio Professional (Community won't do it); so a lot of hobbyist programmers and students are not aware of it.
On the other hand, its existence is in my experience very well-known among people who use Visual Studio for work at some company.
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dgxyz • today at 1:32 PM
You can install the LTSC toolchain without a license. Just not the IDE.
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The Visual Studio Build Tools are installable with winget (`winget search buildtools`).
There are licensing constraints, IANL but essentially you need a pro+ license on the account if you're going to use it to build commercial software or in a business environment.