just vibing (doing stasi stuff)

Ruling Javascript and Python programmers out would be more sane imho. Java sucks, but at least its typed and doesn’t implement weird semantics.

I swear to god, companies are nowadays just picking the solution with the most buzzwords. Any compiler engineering student knows how to write a transpiler from one language to another, while getting this right is a cumbersome task, it still completly automated afterwards. Just hire a few compiler engineering phds and the job is done in at least half a year.

Look what i found after a quick google search:

• https://github.com/patrickp89/actojat
• https://github.com/opensourcecobol/opensourcecobol4j
• https://github.com/opensourcecobol/opensource-cobol