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Project shows you can run a Minecraft server on the 60-year-old COBOL language | The number of COBOL programmers is dwindling, but new developers can still learn it


Modder meyfa recently published tools and instructions for running a Minecraft server using COBOL, a programming language created for business IT systems in the 1950s and 60s....

TL;DR: Minecraft has long been a platform for impressive feats by modders, from recreating massive structures to running computer systems within the game. Despite COBOL's enterprise-focused nature and the developer's lack of prior experience, this alternative version of Minecraft runs smoothly, supporting most of the game's basic features. Modders have previously built a recreation of the original Legend of Zelda, a Google Earth voxel converter, a PC capable of running Doom, and even a simulation of the entire known universe within the game.

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