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No one’s laying off COBOL programmers. Specialization has its upsides once the market isn’t saturated!
by altairprime 1y ago
No one’s laying off COBOL programmers. Specialization has its upsides once the market isn’t saturated!
- IshKebab 1y agoWell only because 99% of the world's COBOL developers were laid off decades ago (or switched to another language).
- altairprime 1y agoThe more things change,
- Tadpole9181 1y agoAs someone with experience in this specific niche, yes they absolutely are. There are no longer ten thousand retail chains asking for COBOL-based counterpoint PoS mods on a yearly basis. The COBOL market is basically tenured experts in existing systems or polyglots helping migrate the systems to VB or C# at this point. The market has plummeted and now it's in the final deflationary shrink before death.
- altairprime 1y agoAh, damn, I’m sad to hear that. Always respected the language. :/