[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/27/2021 12:23 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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
>>
>> And Java runtime (well compiler and runtime, but compiler does
>> not matter) also first available November-December 2022.
> 
> Looks as if x86 will be useless, for me, for more than a year ..

9.2 are expected out in April and are considered production ready.
So only a half year.

*IF* you are willing to cross compile your Basic code on Itanium.

But I fear that at least some people will question the "production
ready" status when native compilers are not available. That is
not a real issue (it is common for some types of system to
use cross compile), but it could very well be a perceived like
that.

Arne