By "new COBOL projects" I mean green-field development of entirely new projects written in that language - not the continued development of existing COBOL codeb

By "new COBOL projects" I mean green-field development of entirely new projects written in that language - not the continued development of existing COBOL codebases, or development of tools which interact with COBOL code. As an aside, the article you linked to is pretty obvious AI slop, even aside from the image ("blockchin infarsucture" and all). Some of the details, like claims that MIT is offering COBOL programming classes or that banks are using COBOL to automatically process blockchain loan agreements, appear to be entirely fabricated.