[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Richard Maher]

On 24-Jan-18 8:12 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

EXACTLY! Jay missed the point completely :-(

Not a single cent more should be spent on a browser for VMS except to 
decommission them.

NODE.js is now the defacto language for small/simple web-servers.

JAVA and Apache are great! MONO .NET would be fantastic. Python is good 
but money and features are pouring into Node.