[gaius]

Curious about his point about virtualisation; sure you can't run a VM locally but those mainframe OSs have had excellent support for VMs since the 1960s and are still in many ways far ahead of more mainstream hypervisors.

[83457]

He was talking about local development environment.

[gaius]

So why not just get himself a few dedicated VMs on the mainframe? Those things can supports thousands at a time...