[Info-vax] Developing VMS applications on VMS or on Linux/Windows ?, was: Re: x86 Cross Tools Kit

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/4/19 10:47 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-03-03 21:57:27 +0000, already5chosen at yahoo.com said:
> 
>> On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 8:35:18 PM UTC+2, Bill Gunshannon 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2/27/19 9:49 AM, John Reagan wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 8:53:12 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Should VMS development continue on VMS, with its more limited 
>>>>> development environment or should VMS be treated more as an 
>>>>> embedded system and development done under the richer development 
>>>>> environment on Linux/Windows ?
> 
> That's the inevitable fallout from the server-only strategy, if 
> developers want GUI-based development tools.  OpenVMS developers have 
> been command-line, but that approach is fading among developers.  And 
> having used some of what's available, that command-line approach is 
> fading with very good reason. Some of the current-generation IDEs are 
> vastly better than the OpenVMS command-line tools.  And VSI has a pile 
> of work underway—and a far larger pile pending—to upgrade OpenVMS as a 
> server, too.
> 

Out of curiosity, does Java on VMS support graphics?  Does it requires
DECWindows to do that?  There is an interesting and quite usable IDE
written in Java that doesn't consume as much resources as something like
Eclipse.  I would try it out but all I have are VAX and I know there is
not  now and never will be Java on that platform.

bill