[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-08-21, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> He seems to have been talking about Ada.   :-)
>

Hey, in Simon's defence, the comment from Chris is still ambiguous,
even in hindsight. :-)

Bill is also probably right when he talks about a validated compiler
and don't forget that validated is not the same thing as supported.

> In theory the size of the project does not rule out an
> open source implementation. Almost all the worlds
> biggest development tool chains are fully or partly
> open source.
>
> The size and the fact that it is for VMS makes it
> unrealistic though.
>
> But there are a few potential alternative paths
> forward for Dibol on VMS.
>
> If VSI implemented .NET on VMS, then Dibol would become
> available, because it supports .NET as platform.
>
> If Synergex decided to support JVM as platform, then
> Dibol would become available on VMS, because VSI
> supports Java.
>

I don't see any of those options happening in the short or medium term
however, so Bob is probably going to have to consider other options such
as moving his Dibol codebase to Linux, unfortunately.

Simon.

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