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There's an alternate timeline where Ousterhout's dream was realized and TCL filled the role that the Javascript swamp filled. I think that's a better timeline from a tech perspective.

Not to sidetrack that much, COBOL is now in ISO 2023, even has OOP features, there are ways to do microservices in it, and nice modern IDEs as well.

Additionally maybe we should stop complaining about its verbosity, given the amount of English based programming going on nowadays.

I don't dare to think about the horrible output of an LLM generating COBOL with hallucinated English dropped in.

I know.

I would hazard a guess that a significant fraction of HNers would have encountered TCL in silicon CAD and took with them a frustrating experience.