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by forgotpwd16 1778 days ago
No one running COBOL will use it because those legacy applications "just work". Debugging and making certain the resulted transpiled code does as well will take a monumental effort (read: money). That is why those codebases haven't been ported because, based on similar efforts, transpilers are only partially easier than a manual rewrite.

That answering the what if question. The project itself is interesting.