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What about

https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/

https://cobolworx.com/pages/cobforgcc.html


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lefessan10/02/2024

We are among the major contributors to GnuCOBOL, we use https://github.com/OCamlPro/gnucobol to review our contributions before pushing them on the SVN of Sourceforge.

Cobolworx is indeed working on a gcc frontend for COBOL. It's an impressive work (that was presented at FOSDEM this year), but less mature than GnuCOBOL, and tied to gcc, whereas GnuCOBOL can work with any C compiler (llvm, msvc, etc.) by translating COBOL to C.

Though we desig SuperBOL to work with GnuCOBOL, it could also be used with GCOBOL when it will be officially stable.