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> 10,000s of unemployed cobol developers in the US. You need to find that Cobol developper, that can work at your office, that will still works for at least th
by dwild 7y ago
> 10,000s of unemployed cobol developers in the US.
You need to find that Cobol developper, that can work at your office, that will still works for at least the next 10 years, that won't ask a ton of cash because he expect to keep a similar salary as he did before, that is actually competent, etc...
In the other hands, you got 10 000 unemployed java developer that get out of school in less than 500 km around your office, every year, that will do the job nicely for a pretty cheap salary because it's their first job.
- PorterDuff 7y agoAha. That's why they keep inventing new languages.
- givehimagun 7y agoA fun fact - Java is over 23 years old. Don't know if anyone would call Java "new" anymore.
- JoeSmithson 7y agoIt's actually almost the same amount of time C-to-Java as Java-to-now.
- salty_biscuits 7y agoLike just like stegosaurus and t-rex
- js8 7y agoAnd same amount of time Cobol-to-C?
- rtkwe 7y agoC started in 1972 so no. Cobol is close but was only 13 years between it's appearance and C.
- granshaw 7y agoIn all seriousness, I think there’s a ton of waste involving languages - each language introduces its own package manager, doesn’t interop with other languages meaning you have to rewrite python’s requests library in #newlanguage2019 etc
- lalos 7y agoJust like a fancy new javascript framework that get propped up by big companies. Can't have experienced developers if the framework is brand new!