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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-03-04 18:47:28 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:

> On 3/4/2019 1:32 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 3/4/19 10:47 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> It does.
> 
> Otherwise it would not be Java. AWT and Swing are mandatory parts of Java.

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>>> And Java on OpenVMS isn't all that speedy for any code that doesn't get 
>>> JIT'd, for the folks working with applications based on that tooling.



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