Otterkit COBOL Compiler on the .NET Community Standup

Hi, I'm the lead developer of Otterkit, a new free and open source COBOL compiler.

We've been recently invited by the awesome .NET team to appear live on their Languages & Runtime Community Standup. We'll be talking about the project, showcase an example of COBOL generics, and talk about our plans for the future of the project (and more COBOL-related things if we have time).

We hope to help improve the COBOL ecosystem and help change the language's "outdated and not suitable for modern development" reputation, because it is much more capable and powerful than most people realize.

Modern COBOL with the 2023 standard is a very powerful and capable language that can do so much more than just legacy banking and financial systems.

With its OOP syntax which includes generics, auto-implemented properties, method overloading and type safety, together with its excellent error and exception handling, async messaging, and overall how reliable it is makes it a pretty awesome language for modern backends that need to be secure and stable.

"This is not your grandparents' COBOL"