COBOL vs. Clojure vs. JavaScript vs. Visual COBOL Comparison Chart

Clojure is a robust, practical, and fast programming language with a set of useful features that together form a simple, coherent, and powerful tool. Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language, yet remains completely dynamic, every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When a mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system.

Visual COBOL provides COBOL development and integration tools, in your choice of Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code or Eclipse, that offer programmers an unrivaled development experience. Use Visual COBOL to help your software delivery teams transform core business systems written in COBOL using the latest technologies including .NET, JVM, Containers and Cloud. Introducing the next chapter of COBOL Innovation, Visual COBOL 7.0. This latest release delivers new and exciting development capabilities designed for Micro Focus COBOL applications. Take full advantage of the new, open and popular toolset, Visual Studio Code for COBOL development. Visual COBOL 7.0 also delivers a continued Micro Focus commitment to COBOL deployment across a wide array of platforms including new Linux distributions, .NET core, Docker containers, Azure Cloud and AWS. Compile COBOL applications to Java byte code for deployment within the Java Virtual Machine.