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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 🙏
That’s alot of effort to go from one horrible programming language to another horrible programming language.
What would your language of choice have been? And why is java horrible for this scenario? it sounds like a reasonably good choice to me
I’m thinking Go or Rust would be the logical next step. They probably won’t want an interpreted language so Python is out.
If they don’t want interpreted Java is out too
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Just curious, what about go or rust makes them the logical next choice and not java? What do go or rust do better that java doesn’t?
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javascript
JavaScript is worse than COBOL.
I’m assuming there is an implied /s here
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JavaScript is actually really nice as a beginner programming language because of how quickly and visually you can see your results, and how easily you can debug with console output. Yeah it’s horribly unoptimized but it’s not for big things. It’s for little things. It’s baby’s first programming language.
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Python, anyone?
Not nearly as performant as either Java or COBOL.
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