Minecraft in...COBOL?

When you think of languages you might read about on Hackaday, COBOL probably isn’t one of them. The language is often considered mostly for business applications and legacy ones, at that. The thing is, there are a lot of legacy business applications out there, so there is still plenty of COBOL.

Not only is it used, but it is still improved, too. So [Meyfa] wanted to set the record straight and created a server called . The system runs on GnuCOBOL and has only been tested on Linux.



There are a few limitations, but nothing too serious. The most amazing thing? Apparently, [Meyfa] had no prior COBOL experience before starting this project! Even if you don’t care about COBOL or , the overview of the program is interesting because it shows how many things require workarounds. According to the author: Got the urge for Cobol? We’ve .

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