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Micro web-framework for COBOL

30 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 7 stories, 23 comments · first 2015-03-13 · latest 2026-07-16

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  1. See also: Cobol on Cogs: http://www.coboloncogs.org/HOME.HTM Cobol on Wheelchair: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by pelagicAustral · 2025-10-03 · in Webbol: A minimal static web server written in COBOL
  2. …also Cobol on Wheelchair[0], although they didn't follow the good name abbreviation practice. [0] https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by myth2018 · 2023-12-21 · in DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (2010)
  3. Reminded me of COBOL on Wheelchair: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by pelagicAustral · 2023-12-21 · in DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (2010)
  4. https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair I need to share this in all its glory. There is a working COBOL web framework. "Still got it!" it croaked from the corner.
    comment by HeckFeck · 2022-09-13 · in COBOL’s youth culture
  5. …years ago promoting COBOL as the hot new web language, maybe it's finally time Cobol on Wheelchair https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair Cobol on Cogs http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
    comment by dmitriid · 2022-05-01 · in COBOL Programming Course
  6. …[0], a web micro-framework for GNU COBOL, written by Adrian Zandberg [1], a Polish MP. [0]: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zandberg
    comment by nathell · 2022-02-02 · in Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)
  7. Why not COBOL of Wheelchair? https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by smnrchrds · 2022-01-17 · in DOS on Dope (2010)
  8. There is also COBOL on Wheelchair: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair IIRC both of them where featured on the HN front page once.
    comment by st_goliath · 2021-04-07 · in IBM COBOL for Linux on x86
  9. COBOL on wheelchair: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by sgerenser · 2021-04-07 · in An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem
  10. So I guess you could use https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair and develop your entire app in a Worker. Great!
    comment by chx · 2020-04-16 · in Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL
  11. I thought of https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by pantalaimon · 2020-04-16 · in Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL
  12. And what about https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair ? display "content-type: text/html" newline end-display. Most of your webapp is already done :D
    comment by chx · 2020-04-10 · in COBOL programmers answer call
  13. https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by akerro · 2020-01-22 · in Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework
  14. COBOL-ON-COGS ( http://www.coboloncogs.org/HOME.HTM ) was one, but also https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by capableweb · 2020-01-22 · in Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework
  15. Also: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by etaioinshrdlu · 2019-09-06 · in Cobol Web Development
  16. On the topic of "why would you write that with that", this is worth a mention: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by rgoulter · 2019-04-13 · in I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash
  17. Or Cobol on Wheelchair https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by monocasa · 2019-02-12 · in 1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth
  18. Cobol on Cogs has been superseded by the COBOL on Wheelchair framework: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair/blob/master/READ...
    comment by flavio81 · 2017-10-27 · in Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it
  19. A quick search for COBOL applications on GitHub found this: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair .
    comment by hasbot · 2017-09-07 · in Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2
  20. Reminds me of: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by k__ · 2016-06-20 · in Show HN: A Fortran web framework
  21. Also relevant: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by danpalmer · 2016-06-20 · in Show HN: A Fortran web framework
  22. …to do in COBOL if hired to work in it, is interesting. 1: https://github.com/trending?l=cobol 2: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by kbenson · 2015-07-06 · in The Inevitable return of Cobol
  23. …(also a joke, but with actual functioning code [2]). [1]: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM [2]: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
    comment by agnokapathetic · 2015-03-13 · in COBOL on Wheelchair