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 🙏
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
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?