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When migrating data, the author proposed using Python to build a comparison tool, but the team insisted on using COBOL due to historical reasons (over 50 years of use), reflecting the inertia of legacy technology.
A first-person shooter game implemented in COBOL, supporting Wolf3D-style and DOOM-like levels.
The author reflects on the Bun rewrite, suggesting that legacy codebases will be valuable for distilling code into new forms, and argues that all games should be crossplatform and legacy software should work on the web, dismissing the need for COBOL.
Hopper is a new AI-powered agentic interface for mainframe operations, allowing developers to navigate TN3270, write JCL, and debug z/OS jobs using natural language prompts.
Hopper is introduced as the first agentic development environment specifically designed for mainframe and COBOL systems.
Hillel Wayne promotes a fundraiser for the Greater Chicago Food Depository with a discount on his book 'Logic for Programmers', and shares technical notes on structured concurrency and the history of goto statements.