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Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java

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127 points Anon84 | 1 comments | 03 Dec 23 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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buro9 ◴[03 Dec 23 18:12 UTC] No.38509304[source]▶
https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/cobol-programmer-salary...

If it's so valuable to the industry that they have good people who know it, that should surely be reflected in the salary / comp for roles... And if that were high, people would learn it, but it's not high, it's arguably worse than just learning a little JavaScript

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1. aitchnyu ◴[04 Dec 23 05:07 UTC] No.38513921[source]▶
Indian companies take fresh graduates and train them into mainframe devs. I was a little sceptical about shrinking pool of highly paid people.