Strange comment for Hacker News. Maybe the author wanted to learn more about COBOL and this was a fun way to explore that and share their findings. Not every personal project needs a business case to justify its existence.
It was a good question to ask, and they have a strong nose for when there's a missing factor in an explanation: GP, it's a joke about Next.js abusing a language keyword to make it easy to in-line server side code in client code via require ("server"), there's been an explosion in memes about it over the last day
Sorry people got personal and berated, I really do mean it when I say you have a good nose for a missing factor
Sorry people got personal and berated, I really do mean it when I say you have a good nose for a missing factor