The issue with COBOL (opinion) is that its used in "business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments" (development sponsored by the D

The issue with COBOL (opinion) is that its used in "business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments" (development sponsored by the DoD) which all tend to be high money, secrecy, and competition. Plus, back in 2012, 60% of all companies surveyed still had COBOL in the back somewhere (2017: 43% of banking systems still used COBOL with over 220 billion lines of COBOL code). There might be stuff written COBOL, except they're never gonna share it with you, cause its far too important to the fight over the $100 trillion stock markets.