We use a COBOL variant from a company in the US that is not open-sauce, but is very, very efficient and in continued developemnt, and we like it. A lot. It has a simplified syntax over COBOL, for example, no 6 columns on each line before code, no weird definition section at the start, seemless integration with the DB (no sql, just &quot;READ users INVALID KEY next sentence&quot; will open and read a file and handle an error (no primary key found) ).<p>It&#x27;s so efficient that it&#x27;s hard to grok at first. And &#x27;normal&#x27; COBOL sytnax works. And it comes with a web framework.  If anyone on HN is sitting on an aging COBOL project&#x2F;app you could do worse than to chat to Zortec in Tennessee.