Shmuel Metz wrote: >Now if they could just bring z/OS support for Kotlin, Lua, >Perl, Raku, Ruby and Rust up to date ... >Yes, bringing the port up to date includes first porting it ;-)
Let's take these in order.... 1. As far as I know, as long as you use the Kotlin compiler to target a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) -- the typical/usual pattern -- your program will (also) run on z/OS. The basic command line compiler syntax is as follows, assuming Kotlin source code in the file hello.kt: kotlinc hello.kt -include-runtime -d hello.jar java -jar hello.jar There's also a potential future path that'll support Kotlin's LLVM target (since z/OS now supports LLVM), but that's speculative. 2. There's a z/OS build of Lua available here: http://lua4z.com This is a circa 2014 build of Lua. Fundi Software created, maintains, and supports this distribution, so if you'd like something newer then feel free to inquire. 3. Rocket Software offers Perl for z/OS here (currently 5.24.0, which was released on May 8, 2016): https://www.rocketsoftware.com/zos-open-source 4. For Raku, go grab the Rakudo distribution and target a JVM (--target=jar). Or use Rakudo.js to target Node.js (JavaScript) since Node.js is available for z/OS: https://www.ibm.com/products/sdk-nodejs-compiler-zos To my knowledge there's no difficulty with either path. 5. JRuby is available: https://www.jruby.org The best implementation of Ruby for z/OS is probably currently the Docker container image that runs in the z/OS Container Extensions: https://hub.docker.com/_/ruby 6. Rust will need LLVM, now available on z/OS. However, you can already compile and run Rust code via the z/OS Container Extensions. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - - - - - - E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
