What Does Compiler Mean?
A compiler is a software program that is responsible for changing initial programmed code into a more basic machine language closer to the “bare metal” of the hardware, and more readable by the computer itself. A high-level source code that is written by a developer in a high-level programming language gets translated into a lower-level object code by the compiler, to make the result “digestible” to the processor.
Techopedia Explains Compiler
For an excellent example of what a compiler does, consider the comments encoded by programmers in amid the white space of a code base, delineated by tags that require the computer to “ignore” the alphanumeric text.
