[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/23/2018 10:38 AM, jaybraun2.0 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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?

My note about JS and Node was strictly about server side.

I don't think node.js works in browser.

Arne