This repository owns the public language website at xsharp-lang.xyz. It does not own Progmasoft's corporate or account sites. Visual X# uses its own supplied purple leopard SVG identity; the Progmasoft mark is a different brand.
/answers why Visual X# exists and gives an honest implementation-status caveat./docs/overviewexplains the design direction./docs/getting-startedlinks the real compiler checkout and toolchain.forum.xsharp-lang.xyzis a standalone informational page. It is not a forum service; accounts and posts do not exist there yet. It stays noindex until a real community forum is launched.
The language domain remains on its maintenance page during the redesign. Do not replace the maintenance Nginx config with
ops/nginx/xsharp.conf merely because the new frontend builds. Publishing the site requires content review, route checks,
and an explicit rollout decision. The forum placeholder can be deployed independently. See the
operations runbook for the exact route and rollout boundaries.
The frontend is Vue 3 + Vite + TypeScript. It defaults to dark mode and en-US, with a de-DE option and a light theme.
Preferences stay in local storage. Motion is limited to short interaction transitions and obeys reduced-motion preferences.
The site uses self-hosted Fira Sans and no third-party runtime font request.
cd frontend
npm ci
npm run check
npm run format:check
npm test
npm run build
npm run dev
The production artifact is frontend/dist/. Deploy its contents to the static root named
/srv/xsharp/website/current/frontend/ in ops/nginx/xsharp.conf. Vue Router history URLs require the Nginx
try_files ... /index.html fallback. The sitemap lists only the three canonical language pages; forum remains noindex.
The small language-site API is Kotlin/JVM 25 and Spring Boot 4.1.1. Its package root is
com.progmasoft.visual.xsharp.website. It exposes /api/v1/site for the website's own public state and /health
for the local service manager. It has no account, package, publication, or registry endpoints. Progmaweb owns those
separate services and uses Next.js with ASP.NET Core 10; neither that stack nor its status API belongs in this repository.
cd backend
gradle test bootJar
The jar is built under backend/build/libs/. The server unit in ops/systemd/xsharp-site-api.service expects it at
/srv/xsharp/website/current/backend/visual-xsharp-website-api-1.0.0.jar and binds it only to loopback port 5086.
The old .NET process remains on loopback port 5080 solely because Progmaweb's temporary ViGet status route still
depends on it; the language site does not proxy to that process. Migrate the ViGet route within Progmaweb before
retiring the old process. The server needs a Java 25 runtime. Committing these files alone does not deploy them.
The code example in the site is the repository's Examples/HelloWorld/HelloWorld.vxs, not an invented syntax sample.
All links to the compiler, examples, and specification point to the Progmasoft/visual-xsharp repository. The design
examples in Spec/ can be ahead of compiler support; website text must not turn them into implementation claims. The
retired docs/ARCHITECTURE.md link has been removed; architecture documentation now lives under Documents/ in the
compiler repository.
The content contract records the intended page roles, translation rules, and fact-checking
boundary for future copy changes.
Project-owned website source is AGPL-3.0-or-later with the Progmasoft Patent Grant, Version 1.1. Users interacting
with a deployed modified version over a network must be offered its corresponding source. See LICENSE.txt, PATENTS,
and LICENSES/AdditionRef-Progmasoft-Patent-Grant-1.1.txt. Fira Sans has its own OFL notice in
third_party/fonts/FiraSans-OFL.txt.