Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Kobol
A Modern COBOL-Inspired Language for the JVM
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Simple, expressive & portable programming language for efficient scripting - Arturo Programming Language
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ForewordJavalin is a Java and Kotlin web framework which focuses on simplicity and Java/Kotlin interoperability.It supports WebSockets and HTTP3, and it uses...
2022 · javalin.io · its alternatives →
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This is an evolving toolkit of capabilities helpful for analysing and reverse engineering legacy Cobol code. Currently, the following capabilities are available: - Program / Section-level flowchart generation based on AST (SVG or PNG) - Parse Tree generation (with export to JSON) - Control Flow Tree generation (with export to JSON) - Allows embedding code comments as comment nodes in the graph - The SMOJOL Interpreter (WIP) - Injecting AST and Control Flow into Neo4J - Injecting Cobol data layouts from Data Division into Neo4J (with dependencies like MOVE, COMPUTE, etc.) + export to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kombai▲1,079A new AI model that you can prompt with UI designs
2023 · kombai.com · its alternatives →
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easy online programming language to learn to programm
2018 · kabas.online · its alternatives →
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We’re building an open-source language layer on top of Go, designed specifically for COBOL-style workloads: Native decimal arithmetic (COBOL-accurate) Record structures and copybook compatibility Batch jobs and transactional orchestration as first-class constructs Sequential / indexed file I/O baked into the runtime Compiles through Go for speed, concurrency, and cloud deployability Think of it as Kotlin for COBOL, or “COBOL on Go” familiar to mainframe engineers, powerful for modern developers. Test Results so far: NIST COBOL-85 validation: 77.61% overall (305/393 tests) NC…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm the lead developer of Otterkit. We've been working on this compiler for the past few months. The goal is to support the latest COBOL 2022 standard and compile it to C# (will support nativeAOT as well) Currently most of the work is being done on the parsing side of it to ensure that it can correctly parse all of the 2022 standard. We're almost done writing the parser, and will soon move to the codegen and runtime library. Please let me know what your opinion is on the project. I'll be here to answer any questions about it. We're also looking for contributors if anyone is interested in…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a toy jvm in awk. Contribute to rethab/awk-jvm development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kosy 2.0▲446A virtual space where remote teams work better together
2022 · kumospace.com · its alternatives →
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Kolibri is Aleph Alpha
22d ago · tej.as · its alternatives →
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A large part of our (Real Kinetic's) business is helping organizations implement platform engineering, but we've found the existing tooling to be lacking. For IaC, Terraform state becomes a pain because TF treats infrastructure as "one-shot" commands. The Kubernetes controller model provides a nicer approach to managing infrastructure, but the tooling here is also lacking. For configuration management, Helm just doesn't really scale with complexity, nor does Kustomize. For resource orchestration, Crossplane is a step in the right direction but still has challenges and limitations. As a…
2025 · koreo.dev · its alternatives →
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A JVM assembler for the modern age. Contribute to roscopeco/jasm development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The idea is actually quite simple. As a Japanese learner and a coder, I've always wanted there to be an open-source, 100% free for learning Japanese, similar to Monkeytype in the typing community. Unfortunately, pretty much all language learning apps are closed-sourced and paid these days, and the ones that are free have unfortunately been abandoned. But of course, just creating yet another language learning app was not enough - there has to be a unique selling point. And then I thought to myself: why not make it crazy and do what no other language learning app ever did by adding a gazillion…
2025 · kanadojo.com · its alternatives →
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"interesting" VM in C. Let's see how this goes. Contribute to tekknolagi/carp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A complete compiler for a simple language (in less than 150 LoC) - 00_readme.md
2022 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · javalin.io · its alternatives →
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COBOL modernization assessment & Java migration scaffolding
Jun 2026 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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A few weeks ago I saw a post about someone converting an entire C++ codebase to Rust using AI in under two weeks. That inspired me — if AI can rewrite a whole language stack that fast, I wanted to try building a programming language from scratch with AI assistance. I've also been noticing growing global interest in Korean language and culture, and I wondered: what would a programming language look like if every keyword was in Hangul (the Korean writing system)? Han is the result. It's a statically-typed language written in Rust with a full compiler pipeline (lexer → parser → AST →…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
2016 · nim-lang.org · its alternatives →
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Modern low-level programming language. Contribute to nickmqb/muon development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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