[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[jaybraun2.0 at gmail.com]

My take on JavaScript and node.js:

Far more helpful for OpenVMS to remain a viable server-side option using existing OpenVMS tools (perhaps on cloud-hosted instances, as discussed in  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/5kbEMaoxZZk%5B1-25%5D ) while enabling web interfaces for browsers running on commodity OSes.

I regularly use virtual CentOS servers -- one hosted by AWS, and one by Linode -- but interface through a small Ubuntu VM running on my Windows 10 laptop.  If I still made use of legacy OpenVMS applications, this is how I would prefer to interact with them. 

My point:  For web applications, emphasis should be on server-side APIs for existing languages.  Is OpenVMS really the platform on which you want to run your browser?

j