We use a COBOL variant from a company in the US that is not open-sauce, but is very, very efficient and in continued developemnt, and we like it. A lot. It has

We use a COBOL variant from a company in the US that is not open-sauce, but is very, very efficient and in continued developemnt, and we like it. A lot. It has a simplified syntax over COBOL, for example, no 6 columns on each line before code, no weird definition section at the start, seemless integration with the DB (no sql, just "READ users INVALID KEY next sentence" will open and read a file and handle an error (no primary key found) ). It's so efficient that it's hard to grok at first. And 'normal' COBOL sytnax works. And it comes with a web framework. If anyone on HN is sitting on an aging COBOL project/app you could do worse than to chat to Zortec in Tennessee.