Yeah I've also heard good COBOL developers can command huge pay on legacy banking systems. That would be a good reason to learn COBOL, but I don't think it make

Yeah I've also heard good COBOL developers can command huge pay on legacy banking systems. That would be a good reason to learn COBOL, but I don't think it makes COBOL a good technology choice. There are times where NoSQL is a better choice. When massive scale is involved I understand that NoSQL can come into it's own. I'm sure there are other cases as well. But when it gets used for CRUD, it tends to be a bad call.