[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bob Gezelter]

On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 11:45:00 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-01-23 15:38:54 +0000, jaybraun2.0 at gmail.com said:
> 
> > My take on JavaScript and node.js:
> > 
> > Far more helpful for OpenVMS to remain a viable server-side option 
> > using existing OpenVMS tools...
> 
> JavaScript also increasingly gets used server-side.  Running the same 
> language everywhere has some merits.  For now, Mozilla Rhino might be 
> enough for those folks.  Maybe Google V8, depending on the specific 
> details of its portability.  Not that I expect to see any existing 
> OpenVMS folks adopting server-side JavaScript in droves, though.  So 
> yes, haul the existing tools forward.  Then branch out.
> 
> > Is OpenVMS really the platform on which you want to run your browser?
> 
> No.  But then that's also not how various folks are using JavaScript 
> and Node.js on servers, either; it's not running in a traditional web 
> browser.   
> https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/node-js-server-side-javascript/ and 
> http://www.commonjs.org and 
> https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_server and 
> https://www.coursera.org/learn/server-side-nodejs and etc...
> 
> 
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Hoff,

As you have mentioned in other posts, it is not always a question of "What user would want to write Javascript for an OpenVMS server?". It is more a question of users wanting to use server-side packages written in Javascript.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com