Flatten the navbar, remove the playground, and share one type system with winglang.io

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Branch: claude/resume-qlgc79 · Base: main (ae70caa, after #1054)

winglang.io is served as one static bundle: the Webflow marketing pages at /,
/about and /contact, and this project's build at /docs, /blog,
/contributing, /install and /learn-wing. The two halves had drifted apart.
This brings them back together, and removes what the shutdown left behind.

One navbar

The two halves ran different top bars, sharing only Install, Learn and GitHub, so
clicking Docs from the homepage swapped the entire bar under the visitor: Docs,
Blog and Use Cases vanished, and Libraries and Examples appeared from nowhere.

Both bars are now Install · Docs · Examples · Blog, with a GitHub link on the
right. Of eight comparable language sites surveyed, six — Rust, Zig, Gleam, Elixir,
Swift and Roc — use a flat bar with no dropdowns at all; the two that don't, Go and
Deno, are far larger properties.

• Learn, Libraries and the Community & Support dropdown leave the bar.
  /learn-wing is a genuinely useful curated hub, so it stays and is linked from
  the footer's Documentation column — whose Installation entry also stops
  pointing at /docs, now that /install exists.
• src/pages/community.tsx is deleted along with its navbar entry.
• The Star us button is now a plain GitHub link. It fetched a live star count
  on every page load, and its icon and label stacked vertically because the
  pseudo-element was display: flex inside a flex row.
• A rule hiding Blog below 1566px is removed. It existed only because the old
  bar had eight items and wrapped.

The playground

The hosted playground needed a compiler service and AWS infrastructure behind it.
Both went away with the company, so /play cannot come back. Everything that led
there is gone: the navbar item, the /play route, the Play button the code-block
theme rendered on any fence tagged playground, the calls to action on /install
and the landing page, the contributors' guide section on embedding the playground,
the maintainers' operations entry, and the Playground section of
start-here/learn-more.

Six FAQ pages that offered the playground as a way to try Wing now point at
/install and the local simulator. The playground fence keyword is left in
place — nothing reads it any more, and stripping it would touch 27 code blocks for
no visible change.

Archived blog posts keep their text, as #1054 established for Discord, but their
twelve playground links are unlinked: a link that 404s is worse than a sentence
about something that used to exist.

The footer's Press Kit entry also goes — a Google Drive folder on company
infrastructure that nobody can reach.

Typography

Both halves already used TASA Orbiter, but not in a way that could stay in sync:

• They declared it under different family names (TASA Orbiter Text here vs
  TasaOrbiterText-Regular), so each half downloaded its own copy of the same
  faces and no shared rule could target both. The faces are now declared once, as
  TASA Orbiter Text (400/500/600/700) and TASA Orbiter Display (600) — the
  names the marketing bundle already uses, with weight on the weight axis.
• TASAOrbiterText-Semibold was declared against the Display OTF, so anything
  asking for text semibold silently got the display face.
• Body copy sat at weight 500 and inline links at 600, against 400 on the marketing
  side, and navbar links were the display face at 600 where the marketing bar is the
  text face at 500. That is why the docs read heavier than the rest of the site.
• One monospace stack site-wide, via --ifm-font-family-monospace.

Also

Three docs pages linked to raw Docusaurus source paths (../NN-name.md), which are
not routes and 404 for a reader: typescript/intro, typescript/inflights and
tools/wing-console.

Verification

Clean build, 95 redirect stubs, no /community or /play route emitted. Measured
in headless Chromium at 1280/1440/1920 and 390×844: all four items visible on every
page, the GitHub link on a single row, and both bars reporting the same family,
weight, size and 80px bar height. No horizontal overflow. On the merged site, 263
internal links resolve and 362/362 sitemap entries are absolute.

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