COBOL Analyzer vs. CodeWays vs. JavaScript vs. Lua Comparison Chart

CodeWays handles cross-platform application migration. The tool automatically migrates source code between two programming languages. In addition, the tool can change the architecture of the application, for example, from desktop to web-based. The software optimizes the migration process to reduce timeline and ensure high quality of application migration. We perform modernization of legacy applications, e.g. COBOL, Progress 4GL, Informix 4GL, Delphi, PowerBuilder to modern technologies, including WEB architecture, provided by the .NET and Java ecosystems. CodeWays is based on an intelligent proprietary system that analyzes data types, relationships between objects, and reserved words and even code structures that do not have any equivalents in a target technology. This ensures high quality of application migration and reduces the amount of manual code adjustments.

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. Lua has a deserved reputation for performance. To claim to be "as fast as Lua" is an aspiration of other scripting languages. Several benchmarks show Lua as the fastest language in the realm of interpreted scripting languages. Lua is fast not only in fine-tuned benchmark programs, but in real life too. Substantial fractions of large applications have been written in Lua.