The problem is that some of those are incomplete, not z/OS, or not up to date. I'd like to see z/OS positioned to use the full range of current implementations of popular languages and interpreters, e.g., MoarVM, Qobe. What I'd really like is for IBM et al to work with CPAN et al to get z/OS changes into the official code bases. Running in a container is certainly useful, but addresses a different problem.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Timothy Sipples [sipp...@sg.ibm.com] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 11:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1nKNP4GyvVRODUkXu1ywIAoH4u7BdSjxSdtc9G7Wxk2MvWkEN9j0Oy-x-8l3-rQnmy1X1w39ORA6BC8MWoP1jX3BWYSyeXJvhCMD5w99Alza7MY2o4jR0B30n9uTrG8esQlkZaofUgwa_ETYgm65yhdpDvq4gvRdnBzmmRo3KK9zCdVCfDNojjmpBXbT5AkSfdQip-rt7HjxDpyRX_XcINCtGpW3YeH4V9p-O1ReDBAGy6iPTLHs4gtuYxiHqdrmpu5kYEdwHPZA4j8u2ctJ6N5lgsZIVoFyx4_pm0o-KEOV1SK9mtqooNKydOi5NFzOKHdEzZ9wh7fCD8xh1qCGgzazC3yya21X6nDwLWXcmwEXx8yAbZ8ISI9qqfq_vfdeTbH0umh9YtgXMvr8xNxqHgdTHqSOwtNxLlqibyLCubxx3w2ZRNL-o1oxXPn695zap/http%3A%2F%2Flua4z.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://secure-web.cisco.com/1alV14CozZPvgagoYhec5SZzxxXLY2QZW5Lh-LpUivj4Jo1Yq5pgL0CPhr2fdPSW5aEZJbt1QJYO8mF5VhTj2twyVeUn7SGtZ57viHj9fgJ_YsvpB-0FGX9flIi7tZNfOWX3ZcS3Z7W0xftx5OnRjpDj0jH1_LgYm-J5SCl7SPflDaPxV8FhhCTZB6zcnft4CvPu98JGTIE8_pc7Q2JwoI-URXN_Y7SSEssXlWQaXDA6q6ufqoFoIfZupV9PMGax0_VlYph5v55BUjmwacxKxfzzDUNErIRE234SCGK1AkqiNANQU3-aKZH69wwD2sJU4Pipx-HyZcKjoiNXr3XlvpQVulsA0FaLlOxmB993elgcNjvw-OPUxdSiR2M0WxPjUzhliP8cXRpXtqT64zFcqoAmwdh8JlgVN5hdV9-7xNAqGq0MJ6YiNY4YXMTKd3O7EIYQjNRtVE9ilXXblLYA7fw/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rocketsoftware.com%2Fzos-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://secure-web.cisco.com/1_uMq3GLJ9HTGBlszWMSuyLJrFJw7L9oeYIJA-3of5gQzsfySNu6IgZvmoj4zQtpA9lI2PGp3gi37A0pcV_-akxGAtvM7PPvmhQaqI_HrU1F03gQZVn35JHKRfhbKi_akuMCHKl6Jxw0XTe5h_A8r_Yf4sJD7K_tifTzN0Wcd1oALF_Ulqx7eFUpt1QydCRax91Si77W-nrrfiCQCtHg1xIUOB4uuAsqT9R3a5uwlgxgIGMaAUHzdv4ZRNKZjHpw1Cq5lmWNznGvBkzF2kmDGzL4BrUDhQaZn8JLU3EiiHQpdipBeG5ZYp037SdHI34BSSZJKAAggOFiZg2I7-YzuxoBAdQbgos8gDrHFgcIRT3eZrCaAKWY6rB9UxqQ-KP9rb48Z_sbz6vv73PKDfCvySGgaZ2mOYe2xCzX7SfHNvWdj86FRFJbr83pY3-d_3q20LVdf4cpThZgRwCSBhTyCYg/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.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://secure-web.cisco.com/183dflPtktXM2fwPPw_eirxf06lcUK0v_jn8pu39cKPKdfWNrFJXD3y_qQia_gjA1OlKuSGjQw07N1njqjr0y0w5EjkVpYZkdgcOaWwlsrvrIXKuP6mxFCq-yjuJf93g9B-gj1bWRZFS_8H0E93go7cFPI893PGM8BCid_gJIeHE-T4icFYbAVav4ldhfnYw4l9VsHjT3ktOKdR6c0eMG-AOCvbkDDKzlKsgJRtUtO1pkSucSK-u2OWSR2f8Wy4RSZiwTR5ATSmZdZxiSVElFJoUpyzzfV_aL1ptFI2o-pb4lZT4Jh1rLFC2xBVuN46hYBuLTTm7OiW2G3bMkPvBFEJhJ84UQLMwPlIHxdA4aGoOXyXRbMITyVdgjuupQCn_OI5pkEUyah5k1PI5WawbD9tA8H_Le3789K7VQHINq48UyoaaS9zn8nmZTeAfxuF8qEtCvP8UhkBeuLiL9595M0w/https%3A%2F%2Fhub.docker.com%2F_%2Fruby 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
