[Info-vax] The Kotlin language, something for VMS as well?

[Forster, Michael]

Sorry triple or tuple?


Michael Forster
Enterprise Storage and IDX Architect | Information Services
Medical College of Wisconsin
O: (414) 955-4967 |  mforster at mcw.edu


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From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> on behalf of John Reagan via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 5:22:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [Info-vax] The Kotlin language, something for VMS as well?

On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 5:54:55 PM UTC-4, Dirk Munk wrote:
> Brett Cameron wrote:
> > Just FYI, I had a bit of a play around with Kotlin a few weeks back and pretty much all the JVM stuff seems to work okay on OpenVMS with Java 8 (the interactive shell has a couple of minor issues, but that’s about all I’ve hit so far)...
>
> That's nice to know. I wonder if a LLVM compiler for x86-VMS can be
> build as well, in the fullness of time.

I would like to push back all the OpenVMS changes & additions to LLVM into the source tree (along with obtaining an OpenVMS "triple" to be official).  The result should be that you can download some future LLVM code set and build it on OpenVMS x86.  There are several things in the way right now but that is my long term vision.
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