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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 12 points 11 months ago

Where do you learn this... Cobol?

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

at university in the 1980s

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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

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