[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 3:57:07 AM UTC+13, John Dallman wrote:

> However, CAD people want to be able to get their software of choice on a 
> platform. These days, CAD software is mostly for x86-64 Windows if it has 
> a GUI, or x86-64 Linux if it's analysis code without GUI. Linux on POWER 
> won't have any significant software available that isn't open source.

The open-source CAD software seems to be right up there with the proprietary stuff, if not ahead of it. I saw a comparative review of FreeCAD and SolidWorks by a professional engineer who runs a YouTube channel, and he confessed he had already used FreeCAD for some paid jobs.

Certainly open-source software tends to have more advanced Python APIs than proprietary tools <https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Python_scripting_tutorial>.