- - Simulating algorithms with one of the legacy interfaces: MSG and
- SimDAG (in C or Java). SimGrid was founded in 1998, and many
- interfaces were proposed along the way. MSG, introduced around
- 2002, is still present in SimGrid. It does not evolve anymore, but
- given its popularity, it will not be removed until at least 2020.
+ - Simulating algorithms with the legacy interface: :ref:`MSG for distributed
+ algorithms <MSG_doc>` (in :ref:`C <MSG_doc>` or :ref:`Java
+ <Java_doc>`). SimGrid was founded in 1998, and many interfaces were proposed
+ along the way. MSG (introduced around 2002) is still present in SimGrid. It
+ does not evolve anymore, but given its popularity, it will not be removed
+ until at least 2020. That being said, our goal is to make S4U so useful that
+ this legacy API becomes useless and obsolete.