[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/13/2021 8:09 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 9/13/21 5:53 AM, Joukj wrote:
>> John Dallman wrote:
>>> In article <shldvp$1jl$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>>> wrote:
>>> I doubt, for example, that Libre Office or Firefox will be especially
>>> worthwhile. Current GUI apps are likely to need more than the X11/Motif
>>> stack, and providing Qt looks like a big job. Databases, middleware and
>>> the like might well be more worthwhile.
>>>
>> Qt would be nice, but I see more applications which are based on gtk. 
>> I know there exists a port of gtk1, but newer versions are not available.
>> John Malmerg and myself both tried independently to get a newer 
>> versing working, but only came to a versions that compiles, but 
>> crashes in most cases at run-time.
>> A lot of Debugging is needed. But a good version of gtk+ would realy 
>> help to port a lot of nice other tools.
> 
> That and fork().  :-)

The importance of fork has decrease a lot the last couple of
decades.

The world is moving to the threading model.

C++ 11, C 11, Java, C#, Rust etc..

(even Python supports threads even though GIL reduces
its usability)

Arne