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The "real world" of airline reservations, the world's financial infrastructure and basically anything involving hardcore real data processing runs on COBOL. Bu
by decimalenough 2y ago
The "real world" of airline reservations, the world's financial infrastructure and basically anything involving hardcore real data processing runs on COBOL.
But yeah, if you're looking to code up a progressive web app or next blockbuster MMORPG, I wouldn't recommend COBOL.
- sofixa 2y agoThe top (in the world) 2 airline reservation system Amadeus have ported everything to Kubernetes for years now. In fact they were among the top contributors to the project a few years back. It's all a matter of age and maturity. Nobody starting an airline, or financial company, or "hardcore data processing" today even bothers considering a mainframe or COBOL.
- 8fingerlouie 2y agoIn fact, starting over is often the thing that is the easiest to accomplish instead of porting 50 years of legacy code.
- oblio 2y agoAt least as much mission critical software runs on C++, Java, and of course, plain old C. I wouldn't portray Cobol to be some sort of magic "hardcore" pixie dust for anything.
- pastage 2y agoFair point! From a personal perspective it was about interfacing with the real world like parsing data, bitbanging or writing drivers. I actually have no problem with doing BI web apps with COBOL.