Don't remember seeing this mentioned here before but it looks
interesting.

https://www.xsharp.info/forum



You may have heard of Vulcan.NET which is an xBase language in more of
the Clipper vein and which supports Visual Objects projects.


Anyway the consensus among developers is that Vulcan.NET is dying or
dead, and so some of the developers have struck out on their own to
implement an open-source .NET implementation of xBase.


"In April 2015 a group of concerned customers and some members of the
GrafX development team have talked about starting a new open source
project to give the xBase language for .NET a new future. This
initiative is called XSharp. This was partially inspired by the fact
that Microsoft has published the source code to its C# and Visual Basic
compilers under an open source license (.NET Compiler Platform
"Roslyn"[1]). The plan is to create a new development language
(compiler, runtime libraties, IDE, tools) where the compiler is
partially based on the Roslyn source code."


While it will initially support Vulcan\Clipper\VO type syntax (which is
in the VFP ballpark but not identical) they also intend to support VFP
syntax next.  I would imagine it would be core VFP syntax, dropping all
the legacy stuff like @ .. SAY and defunct SYS() functions and so forth.
I *think* they intend to support DBF files natively.


Anyway, worth keeping an eye on at least.







--

  Alan Bourke

  alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm






Links:

  1. https://roslyn.codeplex.com/


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