[Info-vax] Java on VMS, was: Re: So is there still a hobbyist program or not

[Craig A. Berry]

On 7/21/19 4:58 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/21/2019 5:18 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> On 7/21/19 2:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> I don't think node.js is available on VMS.
>>
>> V8 has never been able to target IA64 or Alpha and would require
>> gigantic development efforts to do so.  Node.js also uses libuv, which
>> uses event handling primitives not available on VMS, though I think
>> there have been rumors of a libevent implementation in progress.
> 
> I believe that the effort to port V8 to VMS Alpha or I64 would be huge.
> 
> Maybe it would be easier to get it running on Rhino/Nashorn (JVM).

I don't really know anything about what it would take to get Node.js to
work with some Javascript implementation other than V8.  There seem to
be some pretty simple declarative statements around to the effect that
"Node.js uses V8."  So the integration might be deeper than one would
expect.  I have a strong suspicion that Node.js will never run on VMS
besides OpenVMS x64 (or ARM if that ever happens).