> It’s so vast that Microsoft distributes it with a sophisticated GUI installer where you navigate a maze of checkboxes, hunting for which “Workloads” or “Individual Components” contain the actual compiler. Select the wrong one and you might lose hours installing something you don’t need.

I have a vague memory of stumbling upon this hell when installing the ldc compiler for dlang [1].

1. https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_and_hacking_LDC_on_Windows_u...