GCC, the compiler commonly used on Linux. On Windows it's usually bundled with something called MinGW (a collection of tools and libraries used to compile Windows applications without Visual Studio).

MinGW uses gcc or clang, which are different compilers than that provided by Visual C++, which is the cl.exe compiler, although clang has more flags that can be configured to behave more like cl.exe ...

As Microsoft .NET Framework languages have grown in functionality, they’ve started tossing out compiler warnings like your development life depended on it. Messages about unused variables can ...

In version 17.14 of Visual Studio 2022, the MSVC compiler generates code twenty percent faster than in version 17, according to Microsoft. Furthermore, the compiler simplifies the data flow so ...

Roslyn, Microsoft's project to open up the VB and C# compilers to support 'compiler as a service' scenarios, looks to be a post-Visual Studio 2012 deliverable.