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I have no idea what a broom tastes like. But I have a strong inner suspicion that it would go down a lot better with 300ml of ketchup. 🧹

What's the occasion for this feast?

The most wickedly brilliant retro computing project I've seen in a long time. A Polish developer, publishing his work as azac, pondered whether one could give web frameworks like Rails (which, at 20 years old, almost deserves the retro tag), Django & Friends a run for their money. And he's doing it with COBOL! 🤯

Cobol on Wheelchair is not a joke. No, really, it's not. He's dead serious… and he's actually succeeding. A bit of setup, and shortly after, you're serving dynamically generated HTML – not exactly following the MVC paradigm since models are missing in the current version, but that doesn't dampen the fun.

All that's missing now is a small asset pipeline, then delivering Hotwire / Turbo to the client, and voilà, you've got the most modern SPA feeling based on a... 64-year-old language.

I'll go get some ketchup. 🍅