It’s not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes.

I wonder what’s it going to be like this time now that the machine, w/ the help of humans of course, can accomplish an otherwise multi-month risky corporate project much faster? What happens to all those COBOL developer jobs?

Pray share your thoughts, esp if you’re a COBOL professional and have more context around the implication of this announcement 🙏

  • JWBananas
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    211 months ago

    The 2022 survey accounted for code that the 2017 survey missed?

    • @ArbitraryValue
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      211 months ago

      I think it’s more likely that one survey or the other (or both) are simply nonsense.