So far in this series on compiler basics, I've shown: A simple yet efficient way of reading the original source code into memory using a memory-mapped file. Lexical analysis, which is the process of ...

Visual Studio, however, is not an open-source project; it is a profit center for Microsoft. (I think it's fairly obvious that Microsoft wants to encourage .NET usage instead of C++, anyway.) ...

Using Microsoft Roslyn and Visual Studio, dev shops with C# assets can compile apps to run in the browser with no extra coding A new compiler lets programmers use their C# skills to build ...