[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Dan Cross]

In article <trhi5t$13ikm$2 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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?

No, not necessarily.  async can be used to build threads,
and async executors can run in threads, but the two are
in many ways duals of one another.

	- Dan C.