On 20/12/21 8:42 pm, René Jansen wrote:
Yes, that is what NetRexx is for.
TBH, I'm not interested in NetRexx. It suffers from the same weaknesses
as classic REXX in that it only has one data type. The NetRexx manual
has examples of dynamically calling a JavaScript engine to parse JSON
which is totally lame. If I were to use a JVM language other than Java I
would choose Kotlin which is strongly typed and has null safety baked in
and cool features such as co-routines. REXX is impoverished and it's not
going to get any better in my lifetime. Never get emotionally attached
to a programming language. In my career I've programmed professionally
in at least 6 languages and I would happily switch if a better one
became available. Python has 47M downloads on the VS Code marketplace
which is an indication of it's popularity and why IBM have invested in
bringing it to z/OS.
On 20 Dec 2021, at 04:37, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
There's a Python client library for Kafka but it would be a very heavy lift to
implement a client on z/OS using REXX.
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