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Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

234 points _false | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 13:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.28s | source

COBOL legacy systems in finance and government are somewhat of a meme. However, I've never actually met a single person who's day job is to maintain one. I'd be curious to learn what systems are you working on?
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cisrockandroll ◴[18 Jul 25 13:36 UTC] No.44604508[source]▶
Cloud migrations
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1. nine_k ◴[18 Jul 25 13:39 UTC] No.44604529[source]▶
Rewriting things in Java? Or maybe running Cobol in the cloud directly? A mainframe has a number of properties of the cloud, in a sense.