I checked my bookmarks, and there have been success stories for porting cobol into other languages. Here's a discussion from 2019, from cobol into Java: https:/

I checked my bookmarks, and there have been success stories for porting cobol into other languages. Here's a discussion from 2019, from cobol into Java: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19839563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19839563 Phase 1: automation of cobol to (ugly) Java Phase 2: make the code more idiomatic for (cleaner) Java Phase 3: move the infrastructure to AWS In the discussion, someone mentioned "There are commercial COBOL compilers available that compile to Java bytecode." Offhand, if someone were still on cobol, I'm not sure if they'd trust the comparatively new Elixir, but I can also see leapfrogging being a thing. (And I know it's based on Erlang, which pre-dates Java.)