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

COBOL Analyzer provides developers the ability to continuously analyze their code before and after changes are made within their local environment and before committing those changes to the source control management stream. COBOL Analyzer is built on an industry-standard, relational database management system (RDBMS) for centralized storage of application information and artifacts. Intuitive and interactive visualizations ensure that stakeholders have application visibility and developers receive current code change updates. The COBOL Analyzer solution includes a pre-built query library including a set of common queries to locate points of interest within the application code. The COBOL Analyzer solution identifies all code that is affected by the planned code change event. COBOL Analyzer provides developers the ability to continuously analyze their code before and after changes are made within their local environment.

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.