OpenAI says latest models boost COBOL, Fortran and VB migration for legacy systems
ahelkky · x · 2026-10-20
OpenAI announced that its latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic — the languages behind decades of business logic at banks, governments, and enterprises.
The company frames the progress as helping developers modernize legacy systems while preserving what works, says capabilities are built around enterprise customer needs, and is soliciting feedback on which languages and workflows to tackle next.
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