[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[John Reagan]

On Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 2:36:56 PM UTC-5, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <roosmk$ga0$1... at dont-email.me>, jan-erik.... at telia.com
> (Jan-Erik Söderholm) wrote: 
> 
> > Read my lips, there will *never* be a "modern" browser running on 
> > VMS servers having features up to date with browsers on desktop 
> systems.
> Is there some fundamental impossibility to porting Chromium or Firefox? 
> Or do you simply reckon nobody will go to sufficient effort? 
> 
> John
Firefox has large pieces of Rust. 
 
I'll guess that both C++ used by both Rust and Chromium wouldn't get through the Alpha or Itanium C++ compilers.

I suppose you can build them on Linux try to move objects over but that has all sorts of issues with headers, RTL name prefixing, calling convention differences (VMS wants an arg-count).

And all of that is before you have to deal with whatever libraries are used Xorg, GTK+, GDK, and the latest X11.