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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/21/2019 8:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-07-21, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 7/21/2019 8:46 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> A question about Java on the server (instead of client):
>>>
>>> For those of you using Java on the server, what are you moving to
>>> for new development if you are thinking of moving away from Java ?
>>
>> The likely options for the server side of a total new
>> business application are pretty well known:
>>
>> The current king: Java.
>>
>> The big contenders:
>> * .NET
> 
> Does anyone have a feeling for how much work would be needed to get
> .NET/.NET Core running on VMS ?

.NET will never run on VMS.

.NET Core could be ported.

It would be the usual stuff:
* the CLR incl. the JIT compiler
* the native parts of the framework

I suspect more work than VSI want to take on right now.

>> * PHP
> 
> Not exactly a great language for writing large systems but at least
> it is not under the ownership of a single hostile company.

Pretty big stuff is written in PHP.

But it is a bit frontend centric.

Arne