The XSharp compiler is a compiler intended to support multiple dialects in the xBase programming language family. The project is intended as an opensource community effort, but is at the moment still partly closed source.
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History
In 2015 the majority of the developers of the Vulcan.NET team started the XSharp compiler development due to conflicts with their previous employer GrafXSoft about future developments.
As a proof of concept and viability the Vulcan IDE was recompiled and rebuild in XSharp into XIDE.
Supported dialects
At the moment the following dialects are supported:
In the future, the team intents to also support the following dialects:
Technology
The XSharp compiler is based upon the Roslyn compiler and can make fully use of the available .NET framework classes.
References
XSharp Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA