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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the only Cobol programmers left at this point are Gen X and older.

The funny thing is that we've got a ton of legacy hardware that still runs it, mostly in the public sector. But since GenX/Millennials avoided public jobs like the plague, what we're seeing now are Boomers left to teach it to the incoming ranks of GenZs who can't get a job in the dying Silicon Valley sector.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

And just like that, Gen X disappeared from existence