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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] Potatos_are_not_friends 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Saw this post and all the redditors getting dreamy eyed at the idea of learning COBOL.

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/ibms-plan-to-update-cobol-with-watson

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The historic high salary for COBOL Devs etc is also partially due to them mostly being old and extremely experienced senior devs