[Info-vax] Which programming language would you like to see officially supported on VMS ?

[Andrew Brehm]

Python, definitely.

Someone else has already made the very good point that the majority of 
development on OpenVMS will be migrations from Itanium and Alpha, hence 
all traditional OpenVMS languages must be supported.

We need (and have) C/C++ obviously, for the base infrastructure (Unix 
software like MariaDB, MySQL, Apache etc.).

Java is always good to have.

Python is great. We need at least one language for rapid first party 
software development. Windows has C# for that, VMS needs something to.

Now, support for C# or .NET would be great but not important compared to 
first and foremost traditional VMS languages and C and secondarily 
Python and Java.


On 02/01/2021 23:29, Dirk Munk wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
>> For the programming languages which are not currently available for VMS,
>> which of them would you like to see become available and officially
>> supported by VSI ?
>>
>> For me, a modern scripting language such as Python, with integrated
>> VMS support built in, would top that list.
>>
>> Yes, I know Python is available at the moment, but it's not officially
>> supported by HPE or VSI.
>>
>> Are there any other scripting languages or compiled languages you
>> would like to see become available on VMS ?
>>
>> I'm asking just in case there are languages out there with a hidden
>> underlying desire by their users to run on VMS that VSI or the rest
>> of the VMS community are not aware of.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
> 


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Andrew Brehm