DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
> The project […] aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages,
Yes, that's what COBOL means.
> and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months.
It’s the stupid version of “Rewrite it in Rust”. “Jank it in Java”?