• @bradboimler@lemmy.world
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    221 days ago

    What would scare me the most is the bad tooling. I do rely on my tools to search for references, etc. I wonder if it’s even possible to write a good analyzer for COBOL. Verbose operators and literals wouldn’t scare me at all.

    Still would jump at the chance. It would have to be remote and I would strongly prefer being the only engineer touching the code.

    • lime!
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      321 days ago

      you’re not going to get a position remote if your client is a bank or some other entity that does cobol. that shit is running on an airgapped machine running a vm of a machine from the 90s running a vm of a machine from the 70s. if you’re really unlucky the source will be on punch cards because they didn’t invest in a machine with storage and asked the VM developers for the same workflow as before

      • mesamuneOP
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        120 days ago

        True most COBOL is in person only. At least from what Ive seen. Big detriment but most systems are on physical computers…so gl!