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No, it will stay, since a lot of projects are written in it, also new ones. It will stay "forever" like C or C++.
by greyman 6y ago
No, it will stay, since a lot of projects are written in it, also new ones. It will stay "forever" like C or C++.
- tasuki 6y agoI don't get the "no" part: I think you're in perfect agreement with "irrational". There's heaps of COBOL that's very much staying. People are getting hired as junior COBOL developers in 2020.
- dataqat 6y ago"no" meaning no one is writing new programs/apps in COBOL, only maintaining old ones. "stay" meaning people will keep launching new programs/apps in PHP going forward.
- setr 6y agoI mean, COBOL is in the same boat -- there's too much code written in it to outright kill it. They still update the language standard today (2014). The main migration argument I see is usually along the lines of "50% of all COBOL progammers today will be DEAD by 2025!" Rather than about technical/financial merit (anyone willing to migrate on those grounds, and believed it was even possible for their infra, will have already done so)