[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Stephen Hoffman]

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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