[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Richard Maher]

On 15/04/2022 8:44 pm, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/15/2022 3:36 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
>> On 15/04/2022 10:37 am, Galen wrote:
>>> Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> COBOL evangelism, Love of protected subsystems (eg RMS, Rdb), 
>>>> Depression and PTSD after years of VMS abuse, dreams of VMS
>>>> backend resurgence. . .
>>> 
>>> What precisely, I dare ask, are you dreaming about VMS back
>>> ends?
>> 
>> Something like Kestrel that talks HTTP and can pass JSON to 3GL
>> code a la mode de TIER3. FIDO2 Authentication support. To start . .
>> .
> 
> Both Java and Python can provide nice embedded HTTP servers, do JSON 
> and potentially interact with native code (Cobol or otherwise), but 
> obvious question is whether it wouldn't be better to do it all in 
> either Java or Python.
> 
> Arne

This is the biggest mistake VMS has made for 20 years; throw away the 
existing customer base :-(