Fastly services provide execution environments for your custom edge code. In the case of VCL services, you can upload VCL source code, which is compiled on the Fastly platform. However, Compute@Edge services are compiled in your own environment using the Fastly CLI, and the resulting binary is uploaded to the Fastly platform.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://developer.fastly.com/reference/compute/fastly-toml