[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/27/2021 11:35 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/27/2021 11:26 AM, Ian Miller wrote:
>> An updated roadmap has been announced 
>> https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2021-09-27-roadmap-update/
>>
>> Some details on when the native compilers are going to arrive.
> 
> Always good with an update.
> 
> It seems like native compilers are coming out rather slow:
> 
> April 2022 - Bliss, Macro, standard C++
> May-November 2022 - Cobol, C, VMS C++
> November-December 2022 - Fortran, Basic, Pascal

Not that I know how to get them done faster.

Stuffing John Reagan in a copy machine and make
5 copies will probably not work ...

:-)

> And Java runtime (well compiler and runtime, but compiler does
> not matter) also first available November-December 2022.

A shame because it impacts more than just pure Java:
- other JVM languages: Kotlin, Scala, Groovy etc.
- various products that run in JVM but can be used also
   by non-JVM applications like ActiveMQ

Arne