• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Pretty sure the only Cobol programmers left at this point are Gen X and older.

    The funny thing is that we’ve got a ton of legacy hardware that still runs it, mostly in the public sector. But since GenX/Millennials avoided public jobs like the plague, what we’re seeing now are Boomers left to teach it to the incoming ranks of GenZs who can’t get a job in the dying Silicon Valley sector.