nixCraft 🐧I recently saw an IBM presentation on how AI will help eliminate COBOL once and for all. Basically, they are trying to sell a tool that uses their WatsonX cloud service to convert COBOL to Java with the help of the current buzzword named generative AI. Let me tell you, COBOL has outlasted most of the tech that was invented since 1965 and I think it will outlast generative AI, too.
Bill@nixCraft People make fun of COBOL. It's the language I used COBOL my college degree and I have never written a line of production code in it.
You know what? It's really a pretty solid language if you use it for what it was designed. Textual UI, reports, transformation. Otherwise, GTFO. I think it will outlive us all.