[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[already5chosen at yahoo.com]

On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 1:22:57 AM UTC+2, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2018-01-23 kl. 23:58, skrev already5chosen at yahoo.com:
> > On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 6:06:34 PM UTC+2, Stephen Hoffman
> > wrote:
> >> 
> >> Nobody's mentioned an IDE here yet, and that's basically a
> >> requirement for most modern developers.   That means more than a
> >> little work in LSEDIT or other VSI tools, and more than a little
> >> integration support that the third-party IDE providers can build on.
> >> Build-related tools, too.  Cmake has been ported, but is not yet
> >> available.  Work on GNV and its tools.  Etc.  Existing ISVs accept
> >> where OpenVMS and its tools are, but potential new ISVs are going to
> >> be a little more particular about the available tools and frameworks.
> >> 
> > 
> > I would imagine that new ISVs would not want native VMS development
> > tools at all. They would be more comfortable with Windows-hosted or
> > Linux-hosted cross-development.
> > 
> 
> Yes, also thought about that when I saw Hoffs note. I do not see any
> major news in the native tools, besides of in the build/compile/link
> contexts. Editing sources belongs to the desktop.

That's not what I meant. I had in mind all code-generation tools also running off-VMS, ether on desktop, or, for large projects, on non-VMS build server. Only minimal debugger agent runs natively.