[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[chris]

On 10/04/21 00:10, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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>.

Haven't used Freecad, but have used the KiCad suite for schematic
capture and pcb layout. Developed at Cern and under continuous
development, it replaces proprietary packages casting thousands.
Runs under Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, quite useful where
development needs to be done under several platforms. Quite
common with other open source packages these days...

Chris