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I guess it depends. You use this software to convert your source code into the binary blobs efficiently. From high level, it behaves like a compiler, but internals are just using other compilers.


A lot of other compilers are the same way. gcc and g++ are higher level wrappers around their low level compiling and linking executables. It depends how you define the terms, including what you mean by "program".


> You use this software to convert your source code into the binary blobs efficiently.

So `make` is also a compiler?




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