[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/12/21 9:30 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 9/12/21 1:53 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <shldvp$1jl$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
>>> - work with open source projects to include VMS as supported platform
>>>     in main repo
>>
>> Definitely.  LaTeX!  Firefox!!!
> 
> FireFox now requires a Rust compiler in addition to C or C++.  That
> isn't completely out of the realm of possibilities with LLVM soon to be
> available, but it also doesn't come for free.  It would be a sizable
> project and unlikely to be a realistic goal for a small compiler team
> that has spent the last five or six years just trying to get the
> existing VMS compilers into a state where they can target x86_64.
> 
> A chromium-based browser is also theoretically possible, but would
> involve porting the V8 Javascript engine as well as several other very
> large projects.  Again, getting to OpenVMS x64 will remove or mitigate
> some of the most obvious technical obstacles, but won't make anything
> happen automatically or for free, and there is not much of a business
> case to make it happen.

Any browser requires a desktop.  I thought that idea had been abandoned?

bill