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After ~11500 lines of handwritten recursive descent, we finally finished implementing the whole syntactic analysis stage of the parser, which means that Otterkit can now syntactica…

Hi, I'm the lead developer of Otterkit, a new free and open source COBOL compiler. We've been recently invited by the awesome .NET team to appear live on their Languages & Runtime …

> Is it really a transpiler? Why not directly compile to CIL? The end result of running Otterkit will be an executable or a C# DLL, so compiler would still be the most accurate wor…

Let me know if your company needs any particular features from a third-party COBOL dialect. We could work together to implement compiler support for those and ensure it works with …

Yes, exactly. Specially when paired with dotnet NativeAOT when deploying to a serverless service, could save a bit on server costs.

I know about GnuCOBOL, but both projects have different goals and ideals. Otterkit compiles to C#, and GnuCOBOL compiles to C. The two are meant for different use cases. You wouldn…

Sent you an email. Is there anything you want to discuss that can't be done here publicly?

I understand, but this is an open source compiler. It's meant to be used by anyone who is interested in the language, or maybe by companies that wish to replace their quite expensi…

Given the amount of proprietary and paid-to-use COBOL compilers which run on .NET and the JVM, I would say that you're not correct. It does in fact run on .NET already. The fact th…

I find COBOL to be a very interesting language, with a huge unexplored potential. For example, I'm sure that most people are not aware that COBOL has generics, method overloading, …

We're planning to make a COBOL C# bridge library, which will allow you to call C# methods from COBOL. The idea will be to find a way to expose C# classes and methods using COBOL's …

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 su…