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Yes, but there's little growth to be had there. I think the Java guys don't want to be the new COBOL, they'd like new apps to be written in Java too.
by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes, but there's little growth to be had there. I think the Java guys don't want to be the new COBOL, they'd like new apps to be written in Java too.
- rbanffy 3y agoJava and, to a lesser degree, C#, seem to have joined COBOL in the list of “forever languages”. Unless financial institutions trust LLMs to rewrite them in newer languages (and finds that cost-effective), there is no way that humongous corpus of business-critical software will ever be ported.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoWhy not? COBOL has great job security.
- nvm0n2 3y agoI'm told COBOL itself doesn't actually. It's not hard to learn and lots of cheap workers in India will do it for you. The job security is knowing the mainframe tech stack in general, and the specific ways it's used in specific institutions that don't have good internal docs.
- pjmlp 3y agoAnd keeps being updated to modern tooling and paradigms. https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overview https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv... COBOL 2023 - https://www.iso.org/standard/74527.html https://www.iso.org/standard/74527.html