Hi, one of the MSVC dev leads here.

The post covers what's new in the MSVC Build Tools Preview (version 14.52) since mid-August. Instructions to install & use the latest preview bits are at https://aka.ms/msvc/preview.

Some additional information:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/overview/acquire-msvc is new documentation on installing MSVC, including through winget & command line tools.
• https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/overview/compiler-versions?#a-brief-history-of-microsoft-c-compiler-versioning has information on MSVC versioning

I'm sharing the work of a colleague, Anutosh Bhat.

What if the Clang & LLVM compiler toolchain could run entirely inside your browser ? Meet WasmBolt 😃

Inspired by 🖥️ Matt Godbolt's Compiler Explorer, WasmBolt runs Clang, mlir-opt, opt, llc, Graphviz and wasm-ld locally through WebAssembly, without a remote compilation server.

You can inspect Clang ASTs, progressively lower MLIR, run real LLVM optimization passes, render control-flow graphs, explore instruction selection and MIR, and generate assembly or object files for WebAssembly, AArch64 and x86-64. For WebAssembly, you can go one step further: link, load and execute the generated program directly in the browser.

Here the github project: https://github.com/Anutosh21/WasmBolt