No. Startups aren’t worth it if you’re not running it. As far as newer techs go, well, how many have COBOL already outlived? It’ll outlive a lot of them yet.

No. Startups aren’t worth it if you’re not running it. As far as newer techs go, well, how many have COBOL already outlived? It’ll outlive a lot of them yet. HN is a great place for FOMO, but reality is often different. In my country 90% of everything is run on JAVA, C# or PHP. Front ends are typically something a little more modern like angular or react, but you won’t get a front end job if you can’t also do C#, JAVA or PHP. If all these new techs really mattered, you wouldn’t still be working on COBOL after all. And you can always play around with them on your free time. I mean WASM is a fun example, if it picks up, then everyone who’s spent the past decade ignoring JS won’t have missed out of anything, because they can just build their web app with WASM. If you want to try something different, that’s another story, but don’t take a pay cut that you don’t have to because if FOMO.