> It’s like the HN myth of how there’s supposedly all these old devs writing COBOL for the government and in reality the government can’t find any developers to

> It’s like the HN myth of how there’s supposedly all these old devs writing COBOL for the government and in reality the government can’t find any developers to maintain their ancient apps Exactly. I worked at a private, multi-billion dollar organization a few years ago. There were plenty of "old devs" working on their COBOL software, but they also got paid more than 6 figures to do so. And they hired recent grads to work on those same systems. New grads typically started around 60k, more if you negotiated better. Whereas these gov't jobs only pay around 35k - 75k for the same work. For someone with years of experience.