Hacker News with Generative AI: COBOL

A Minecraft server written in COBOL (github.com/meyfa)
A Minecraft server written in COBOL. It supports Minecraft 1.21.4 (the latest version at time of writing).
Minecraft, Programming Languages, COBOL
344 points by notamy 23 days ago | 121 comments
Patches Posted for Review Adding COBOL Front End to GCC Compiler (phoronix.com)
The COBOL programming language may be 65 years old since its original release but the mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in 2025 might finally see upstream support for it.
Programming Languages, Compilers, Open Source, COBOL
6 points by rbanffy 35 days ago | 0 comments
COBOL's Map Reduce (2022) (ztoz.blog)
COBOL is for Big Data. Well, sort of. Awhile back, I noticed that the COBOL SORT verb was overpowered. Rather than sorting an array of items or even sorting a file, it included a generalized ability to stream in arbitrary inputs — () => Stream[T] —, where T is a key/value pair, and process the outputs in order — SortedStream[T] => (). This power is useful if you are writing a map-reduce program, but excessive for sorting.
Programming, COBOL, Big Data, Map Reduce
5 points by thunderbong 102 days ago | 0 comments
Why COBOL Isn't the Problem (lucid.co)
Programming, Legacy Systems, COBOL
21 points by fanf2 138 days ago | 19 comments
Show HN: COBOL-REKT, a toolkit for analysing and reverse-engineering COBOL (github.com/avishek-sen-gupta)
COBOL, Reverse Engineering, Programming, Software Tools
91 points by armorer 156 days ago | 49 comments