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Subject: Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:10:15 -0400
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On 3/26/2025 2:51 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2025-03-25, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:
>> Erlang and Elixir would be most attractive as well:
>>
>> https://www.erlang.org/
>>
>> https://elixir-lang.org/
>>
> 
> 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 ?

I don't think there is a good business case for a commercial
port of those to VMS.

There may be a little interest. Having Erlang enables
running RabbitMQ.

And from the past:
  
https://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/576/ErlangonOpenVMSandinhpcloud.pdf

Arne