[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[bill]

On 8/22/2023 8:10 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

I decided to verify that.  Sadly, Ada compilers are no longer validated.


> 
>> 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.

Which, I am sure, is the same that will happen with the Ada users (if it
hasn't already!)

bill