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My (non-bank) employer still has lots of COBOL in production, and its constantly extended. Before working here I expected all COBOL to be running on some large
by nazgulsenpai 2y ago
My (non-bank) employer still has lots of COBOL in production, and its constantly extended. Before working here I expected all COBOL to be running on some large IBM mainframe, but no. It's x86-64 Windows -- COBOL compiled to native Windows binaries.
Edited to specify not a bank.
- Suppafly 2y agoIs there some advantage to using COBOL or did they just have an old COBOL programmer who just kept using it?
- bigbuppo 2y agoEvery single attempt to replace COBOL has ended in failure. COBOL will never die. You can move it to new platforms, but it can never be replaced.
- Suppafly 2y agoThat's not really true, lots of places of replace it with newer stuff.
- nazgulsenpai 2y agoI'm not privy to the details as a sysadmin but based on observation its either an application requirement or legacy foundational codebase carried forward -- probably a combination of both.
- CalumSult 2y agoAs someone doing support and occasional code changes for a pile of vb6 that doesn't sound that bad. If you need a code base to be stable for decades COBOL beats vb6.