MicroFocus has done COBOL for .Net for years... https://www.microfocus.com/products/visual-cobol/ https://www.microfocus.com/products/visual-cobol/ "Compile C

MicroFocus has done COBOL for .Net for years... https://www.microfocus.com/products/visual-cobol/ https://www.microfocus.com/products/visual-cobol/ "Compile COBOL applications directly to Microsoft intermediate language for deployment within Microsoft .NET... Compile COBOL applications to Java byte code for deployment within the Java Virtual Machine" I've actually seen this idea suggested, at least as part of a bake-off between design ideas. There's a certain amount of sense to it.