I’m sorry but this seems like a fool’s errand. Perhaps Jian Wang is a genius that figured out a way to map IBM 360 assembly to Java that would map to the JVM.

I’m sorry but this seems like a fool’s errand. Perhaps Jian Wang is a genius that figured out a way to map IBM 360 assembly to Java that would map to the JVM. Maybe he’s brilliant or maybe his efforts are overhyped by this news piece. It seems that a direct mapping from 360 to the JVM might have made more sense. I suggest that you go look at Rick Hickey’s Clojure code to see how that might look. Government IT is rife with corruption and incompetence. I have worked for a number of agencies and worked in federal government for many years. Projects are often steered in the direction of contractors and federal employees that benefit from technologies. This is often done to bias incumbent legacy stakeholders and technologies that benefit the federal employees and the contractors that collude to control the systems for their own gains. I have seen the sleaziest contractors enrich themselves at SV IPO levels. Then came 18F, the hipster government IT revolution. As a senior developer, and maybe I am just some cranky old developer, but the thought of being vetted by this douchebag, fuckin blows my mind: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/04/08/day-in-the-life-of-talent-manager/ https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/04/08/day-in-the-life-of-talent-man... Yep, most government and corporate IT is fucked.