Don’t know what you looked at or for how long, but NetRexx has all the Java types, including all those you make yourself, in addition to the native types as int, double, etc, in addition to the Rexx type which has the familiar string handling and unlimited decimal precision. The JSON example is an example for people who want to use JS - you don’t have to and I never do. Just use a Java lib for that, in NetRexx.
René. > On 20 Dec 2021, at 10:23, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <dcrayf...@gmail.com> 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. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
