From what I understand Cobol and Fortran still leads in number of lines. So much scientific software: weather simulations, military simulations is still in Fort

From what I understand Cobol and Fortran still leads in number of lines. So much scientific software: weather simulations, military simulations is still in Fortran and Cobol runs at the core of so many banks. In my home country Norway you used to be able to download the code that was used to calculate your taxes (might still be possible but haven't tried in years). That code was all Cobol. So I suspect a lot of government stuff is also Cobol. I am quite fond of C as well, but you know there are quite a lot of other nice languages out there as well. Since I started writing Swift, e.g. I haven't felt much need for C for anything anymore. A problem for me jumping to C#, Java etc is that those are managed languages with very different set of tools and thinking. As a long time C/C++ developer, Swift feels much more natural as the tools, compile process and thinking is much more similar. And Go has a very similar feel to C. When you read Go code it has much of the same simplicity and straightforwardness about it as C code. Even if I don't write much Go code I often read Go code to understand how things work, e.g. HTTP code, encryption stuff etc. Much easier to read the Go code than the C code or anything else really.