[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/2/2023 10:08 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 06:40 -0800, plugh wrote:
>>> I'm currently teaching myself Rust and have been for the past two
>>> years. It is a most interesting programming language.
>>
>> It would be interesting to make this available on the new VMS. I had
>> some notes on this, but I don't think I kept them.
> 
> LLVM supports x86_64 and ELF out the box, so I imagine the truly hard
> bits wil be the bindings to OpenVMS calls and data structures.

I suspect that there is a bit more to get a LLVM based compiler
working on VMS x86-64 than that.

>                                                                Async
> and locking primitives will need to be implemented, that won't be easy.

Isn't async build on top of threads?

Arne