OpenAI announces improved coding capabilities in low-resource languages (COBOL, Fortran, etc.). COBOL migration accuracy increases from 5.4% to 86.6%

On October 19, 2026, OpenAI's official website announced an initiative to improve coding capabilities in "programming ...
Ars Technica

Calling 1959 from your Web code: A COBOL bridge for Node.js

Have you ever wanted to just cut and paste some of that legacy COBOL code from mainframe applications into your latest Web application? No? Well, Romanian Web developer Bizău Ionică has developed a ...
Ars Technica

Who put this JavaScript in my COBOL? Node.cobol, that’s who

Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...

The era where AI rewrites old bank programs: What is COBOL, and why can't banks give it up?

Even when seeing news that "AI can now rewrite COBOL," many people don't even know what COBOL is in the first place.It also ...
Hackaday

Porting COBOL Code And The Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...
Tech Times on MSN

GPT-6 cracks COBOL: 97.9% migration accuracy shifts AI bottleneck from code to enterprise

GPT-6 COBOL migration hits 97.9% behavioral fidelity in OpenAI's latest benchmark, a 16-fold improvement over prior models, but enterprise IT teams should understand the gap between benchmark accuracy ...
InfoWorld

How to interpret COBOL statistics

Consider the following items allegedly gathered from various Gartner reports: * There are 310 billion lines of legacy code operating in the world (65% of all software). * Five billion lines of new ...
techtarget

COBOL applications can go serverless on AWS Lambda

Options to update COBOL have existed for years -- consider mainframe rehosting scenarios and compilers that convert code to more modern languages. Serverless deployment models now join that mix. AWS ...