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A developer built a first-person shooter game entirely in COBOL, called FPS.cob. The game supports movement with W, A, S, D, firing with Space, and quitting with Q. It loads maps from text files and uses assets stored in a res directory.
GlobalData reports that AI cannot bridge the gap between old code and new product architecture. Banks that swap COBOL for Java still carry the same maintenance challenges and technical debt. The real failure is ignoring the wider business blueprint and lost institutional knowledge from retiring engineers.
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