If you want to configure VS Code for Microsoft C++ and make sure that its compiler is working. Working solutions have been mentioned in this post.

For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's available, Wired details how to compile it yourself. Photo by artonice.

How many instructions do you need to successfully compile C code? Let’s see, you’d need some jump instructions, some arithmetic functions, and — of course — move instructions, right? Turns ...

Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.