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I've seen a successful one where COBOL was converted to ".Net" and heard they were applying the same process to another client a few years ago.

I think this is a game changer for trying to migrate secondary services like tools or batch jobs

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There are a few tools to compile COBOL code to .NET without needing to rewrite in a different programming language.

This is the first thing that occurred to me. The people above suggesting a cobol to python or go update confuse the heck out of me. Why not just convert to vanilla jacascript at that point? Bizarre

You usually want a language that provides compile-time check and you already use and know.

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