@_NetNomad Fortunately, we have completely migrated client side and can afford to stick with Visual COBOL's shorter lifecycles (annual releases with 4 years of support) to track recent language developments.

@_NetNomad Even Perl would work, that thing is epic in language stability.

Samba has noticed exactly one breaking change over something well over a decade that it has required Perl to build.

And when we build old Samba on modern systems, say in an epic "git bisect" it isn't the Perl code we have to apply fixups to, except for that single change...

@_NetNomad I've been using cutting edge languages like V-Lang, but I'm seriously considering moving everything into object oriented FORTRAN. 😁