On 7/07/2022 7:53 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
When I select a language for a job, one of the things that I look at
is the ecosystem. I prefer ooRexx to Perl, but I find myself using
Perl for some tasks because CPAN is an awesome resource. Python may
not be the best language for the task at hand, but it pays to check
what packages are available.
Indeed Perl and Python have a great wealth of libraries available to
them.
There is one ecosystem that beats Perl, Python and practically any
others: Java
According to http://www.modulecounts.com/ which shows the number of
unique packages
Node.js 2019534
Java 483102
Python 386118
Perl 18354
So the undisputed winner as far as ecosystem is JavaScript. And it's
growing the fastest. I just downloaded vsam.js to process a VSAM data
set in Node on z/OS and it works well. IBM are certainly giving
Node more love then REXX which will never officially support VSAM.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vsam.js?S_TACT=
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