[Info-vax] Development Tooling (was: Re: Opportunity for VSI?)

[Scott Dorsey]

Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>As you're almost certainly referencing compilers there, that's not been 
>a product differentiator in recent years, and VSI will be using the 
>LLVM tool chain with the older front-ends for source compatibility on 
>x86-64  And the LLVM diagnostics are at least competitive with the 
>OpenVMS compilers.  If not better.  When combined with IDE integration, 
>what's available is far beyond LSEDIT.  With a native LLVM port, 
>there's room to see other programming languages arrive on OpenVMS, too.

Even so, the Portland Group, NAG, and Intel are making good money selling
their special compilers to the HPC people.  HPC people will go crazy trying
to eke out the last bit of performance, and when the DEC compilers were
the best, they used them.
--scott

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