Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
by lefessan on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:55AM
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We are among the major contributors to GnuCOBOL, we use https://github.com/OCamlPro/gnucobol to review our contributions before pushing them on the SVN of Sourceforge.
Cobolworx is indeed working on a gcc frontend for COBOL. It's an impressive work (that was presented at FOSDEM this year), but less mature than GnuCOBOL, and tied to gcc, whereas GnuCOBOL can work with any C compiler (llvm, msvc, etc.) by translating COBOL to C.
Though we desig SuperBOL to work with GnuCOBOL, it could also be used with GCOBOL when it will be officially stable.
Cobolworx is indeed working on a gcc frontend for COBOL. It's an impressive work (that was presented at FOSDEM this year), but less mature than GnuCOBOL, and tied to gcc, whereas GnuCOBOL can work with any C compiler (llvm, msvc, etc.) by translating COBOL to C.
Though we desig SuperBOL to work with GnuCOBOL, it could also be used with GCOBOL when it will be officially stable.