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FWIW, there are banks out there that still use Cobol.
by cpach 4y ago
FWIW, there are banks out there that still use Cobol.
- Gigachad 4y agoEven the banks are starting to move on. I’m seeing local banks now listing mostly python and some rust positions.
- agumonkey 4y agoIt would be interesting to see how they planned their migration. Wrapping or gradual replacement..
- blowski 4y agoRPA. Get a tool like UIPath or BluePrism that writes to the legacy UI, then build modern tools that communicate with UIPath's API.
- scrollaway 4y agoThis can be misleading. Most local banks aren’t using the type of technology the bigger banks are, because those smaller banks tend to run on banking-as-a-service platforms. So the smaller banks are often essentially just proxies to larger ones.
- agumonkey 4y agoYeah I spent half my internship in a acquired COBOL shop, the thing is not all cobol is created equal and theirs was the sum of all evil (old debt, old code generators, less old 4GL transpilers, eclipse pluging glue code). I'm more interested into people from that era doing lean and mean apps. I've seen a few instances of AS400 and COBOL programs that gave me more joy than anything the web ever produced. And I assume Parent was talking about people doing similar things.