Fortune 500 companies still run COBOL on mainframes. Manually rewriting millions of lines of COBOL to Java or C# is prohibitively expensive. With , a developer can write a transformation rule set once, then run the tool across the entire codebase, converting ADD A TO B into b += a with semantic accuracy.
Create a mapping file that tells how to lift the source AST into the universal form. TSynAnySyn
| Feature | Transpiler (Babel, tsc) | Macro System (Rust, Lisp) | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Source Agnostic | No (fixed source) | No (fixed host language) | Yes | | Target Agnostic | No (fixed target) | No (same host language) | Yes | | Hygiene | Variable | Yes (often) | Rule-dependent | | Learning Curve | Moderate | Steep | Steep (but universal) | Fortune 500 companies still run COBOL on mainframes
: Set the Highlighter property of your TSynEdit control to the TSynAnySyn instance. Create a mapping file that tells how to