IBM's new product offering, Code Assistant for IBM Z, leverages a generative AI model to translate COBOL code to Java.

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming.

Google's Bard AI chatbot is now able to help users with programming, including generating code, debugging and code explanation.

Computing How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.