OpenAI boosts COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic support to modernize legacy enterprise systems
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-10-21
OpenAI says its latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic — systems that banks, governments, and businesses still depend on. The focus is understanding decades of business logic while modernizing systems and preserving what works.
Commenters highlight the stakes: much of the world's critical software runs on languages almost no one learns anymore, and the people who understood it are mostly gone. OpenAI is soliciting enterprise input on which languages and workflows to tackle next.
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