Comment by armorer

It's not a crazy idea. For example, Amazon's BluAge offering does automatic translation. However, frequently, forward engineering teams do not want a 1:1 translation of the code, because that might end up reproducing the same system organisation of the original Cobol base (in a modern language), and engineers/architects usually want to work on a new design (while maintaining the original domain logic). So far, this library does not step into the forward engineering territory, and tries to merely provide useful information/artifacts, which could help the reverse engineering teams move (hopefully) faster, but obviously there is a lot of experimentation / inference that can be done on top of the extracted data.