Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS

On 2025-03-25, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

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Not to stray off-topic, but a VSI/ELN RTOS, written in Rust, would be
way cool, and may thrill the industrial process guys in the VMS shops.
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Why would other people use that instead of the high-availability options
now available as standard in the market place ?

Erlang and Elixir would be most attractive as well:
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https://www.erlang.org/
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https://elixir-lang.org/
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Exactly zero paying customers are going to be interested in running
those on VMS.

If VSI didn't even consider it worthwhile to have an Ada compiler for
x86-64 why would anyone be interested in the above options on VMS ?

Not that I can weigh in with any technical quality, on such matters, the
plethora of modern languages puts my head in a spin.
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Those multiple languages are a benefit because it allows you more scope
to choose the right tool for the job.

Simon.

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