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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)
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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

At what point does the cost of tech migration outweigh the cost of training people on a more and more specialist paid language just to not have to migrate to a memory safe higher level language like C or Go or Rust or Lua.

Didn't say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

C and memory safety, name a more iconic duo /s

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Something something better tools too shoot yourself in the foot with something something

[-] Tosti@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Didn’t say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

ah so we just need to persuade banks to switch to python. Noted

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