A UK enterprise guide details the migration of COBOL systems to Python, citing readability, procedural compatibility, AI integration readiness, developer availability, and library ecosystem as key dri…
Convex, a realtime database and compute platform, now has clients in 100 programming languages, including JavaScript, Python, Fortran, COBOL, LOLCODE, x86-64 assembly, and Verilog, created by coding a…
American Express researchers led by distinguished engineer Andras Ferenczi built a system that migrates COBOL programs to Java while preserving bugs, achieving 96.8% branch coverage on a 430-line prog…
A team successfully migrated COBOL programs to Java using an AI LLM, preserving legacy bugs as intentional behavior because existing behavior is the specification. The team treated old COBOL as ground…
Lloyds Banking Group COO Ron van Kemenade said the bank has eliminated over 900 legacy applications since he joined in June 2023 and plans to remove another 500, with agentic AI accelerating the refac…
Only 4 of 33 AI pilots reach production, according to IDC Research, leaving legacy applications still powering most business operations. CIOs and CTOs must evaluate legacy portfolios based on utility,…
A developer built a formal equivalence verifier for AI-migrated COBOL-to-Java code, addressing the gap where AI translation produces compiling Java but cannot prove behavioral preservation. The tool c…
Agentic AI and collapsing rewrite costs have inverted the economics of software language choice, making performance the primary consideration over ecosystem network effects, according to a June 18, 20…
AI is accelerating legacy IT modernization in regulated sectors like banking and insurance, but the primary risk has shifted from code conversion to proving that new systems comply with original busin…
Google Cloud launched AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable version of its AlloyDB for PostgreSQL database, designed to help financial services firms modernize legacy systems, maintain data sovereignty, and su…
Erik Steiger presented on building a modern document infrastructure with Rust and Typst, citing pain points in banking and manufacturing where legacy PDF pipelines caused regulatory issues and operati…
AI is accelerating legacy IT modernization projects in regulated sectors like banking and insurance, but the real risk lies not in code conversion but in proving the new version performs exactly as th…
A developer's project to modernize 40-year-old COBOL mainframe code into Python microservices using a fully offline, local AI agent. The developer used the open-source Gemma 4 model, loaded via Unslot…