Arne Babenhauserheide<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://babka.social/@serge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>serge</span></a></span> That said: I now predict that <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> will make a comeback.</p><p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/GCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GCC</span></a> 15 integrated a COBOL frontend,¹ and <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> COBOL 4 seems to make the performance no longer atrocious² compared to the damn expensive proprietary COBOL compilers.</p><p>And that’s likely a game changer for many huge, mission critical codebases.</p><p>¹ <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/changes.html#cobol" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/changes.htm</span><span class="invisible">l#cobol</span></a><br>² <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/cobol/thread/e1d8cc73ff/#d61f/9c83/4f83/a5de/d16a/7890/6ad7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/dis</span><span class="invisible">cussion/cobol/thread/e1d8cc73ff/#d61f/9c83/4f83/a5de/d16a/7890/6ad7</span></a></p><p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/programmingLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmingLanguage</span></a></p>