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COBOL and Fortran usage more than triples Rust and Go usage. Just to put things in perspective a bit further.
by BigJono 11y ago
COBOL and Fortran usage more than triples Rust and Go usage.
Just to put things in perspective a bit further.
- mastazi 11y agoI can actually see that as being real. There is a lot of legacy code out there (especially in larger corporations) and, while these languages are rarely featured in the news, many people are required to use them at work.
- philipov 11y agoI know someone whose job is to maintain COBOL code for the State of Texas. Government organizations have even more difficulty upgrading IT infrastructure than large corporations do, and there are a lot more of them that can survive a lot longer than there are large corporations.
- mastazi 11y agoA friend of mine uses FORTRAN for a physics lab data analysis