[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/31/22 08:46, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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?
> 

For me, I have the platform and the things I tend to run
require something better than Solaris.  Actually, I am
much more likely to run a BSD but I do have disks with
Linux installed for the Sparc.  I have Solaris, too but
don't remember the last time I used it.  I wasn't happy
when they dumped SunOS in favor of Solaris.  I don't see
where it ever really improved.

bill