Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler for .NET

Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by jiggawatts on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:32PM (#34409170)

This reminded me of the IKVM project: https://github.com/ikvm-revived/ikvm

This is a converter that allows Java bytecode to run on the .NET Framework.

It allows horrific, unnatural things such as a C# class that is a derived type of a Java class!

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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by zdimension on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:21AM (#34409672)

Seeing code like that reminds me a lot of the J# days, when you basically had a Java 1.1 standard library implemented on top of .NET. I played with it a bit a few years back, even ported an AWT to it (imagine using AWT in C#): https://github.com/zdimension/awt2048_csharp/blob/master/Pro...

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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by compton93 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:32AM (#34410359)

That's awesome, I did a similar thing with J# to port a basic Java library to C# a while ago.

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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by compton93 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:35AM (#34410374)

Funnily enough, Cyberduck (the FTP, SSH, s3 mounting software for Mac/Windows) uses IKVM for their windows release.

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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by Yuioup on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:05AM (#34410521)

Whatever happened to, what was it called again, Grasshopper?

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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by bob1029 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:35AM (#34413699)

For a while we used a variant of this in production to interop with an IBM iSeries from .NET. It was mostly about getting access to the DB2 connection, but we also had to run some programs on that system.

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