From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-06-23, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   > On 6/23/2025 8:42 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   >> On 2025-06-20, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >>> ADO.NET (C#, VB.NET etc.)   
   >>> totally standard   
   >>> obviously not available on VMS   
   >>   
   >> Interesting observation. I wonder why ? C# would be more useful than (say)   
   >> Rust for VMS.   
   >   
   > It would be nice indeed.   
   >   
   > .NET is a popular choice for the business apps that   
   > are VMS's bread and butter   
   >   
   > As an illustration then Synergex seems to be pushing DBL for .NET!   
   >   
   > .NET for VMS would give:   
   > * C#, VB.NET and F# out of the box   
   > * third party languages (like DBL!)   
   > * ASP.NET MVC for web services and web apps   
   >   
   > But it is also a huge thingy. It would require a lot   
   > of VSI resources to port, test and support.   
   >   
      
   Yes it is, but it would have helped solve some of the problems VSI has,   
   especially with Synergex, (unless Synergex have now decided to do   
   a native x86-64 VMS port).   
      
   I would suspect that DBL users still make up a significant portion of   
   the VMS userbase (unless they have _finally_ been forced to move off   
   VMS because of an uncertain DBL on x86-64 VMS future).   
      
   Simon.   
      
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