[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/30/2022 10:04 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/30/22 19:49, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/30/2022 7:20 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-01-29, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> And it is not just me.
>>>>
>>>> The rust people are rewriting GNU Coreutils (C) in
>>>> rust.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-Coreutils-Jan-2022 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Let me know when the Rust compiler runs on all the architectures
>>> that Linux runs on. :-)
>>
>> They are missing some.
>>
>> Rust supports x86, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, PPC, RISC-V and mainframe.
>>
>> So they are missing Alpha, PA, Itanium, SPARC and several
>> lesser ones.
>>
>> But who actually runs Linux on one of those?
>>
> 
> I still run it on a SPARC.  If I still had an Alpha I would
> probably be running it n that, too.

I would run Solaris on SPARC and I do run VMS on Alpha
and keep Linux on x86-64. Are there any benefits
from running Linux on a less common platform?

Arne