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Runs your banking, healthcare, aviation and probably government systems as well I think also UK train systems. IBMs glorious mainframe system that so alien to current computer conventions you'd think it came from another planet. Bundled with glorious IBM scented Cobol the finest language ever made
Is that where the "learn Cobol for the banking industry, you'll earn zillions" meme comes from? (in my experience the few Cobol people I met were only as well paid as the next bigcorp IT drone, and much less than the workers at fancystartup.io)
It's from back in the Y2K days when there was a huge demand for COBOL devs, and nowhere near enough of them.
Yeah no you get paid the same amount as any other mid level dev its not a well paid position it also has a quite a high turnover rate every cobol dev I've met is absolutely miserable
ITS IN FUCKING COBOL 😭
I didn't see that coming goddamn, and you say this runs everything?
A billion devices run ~~java~~ cobol