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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: 0.204s | 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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forinti ◴[18 Jul 25 13:53 UTC] No.44604662[source]▶
I know some COBOL devs. They work in a bank.

They wouldn't hang around here though.

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nico ◴[18 Jul 25 14:19 UTC] No.44604910[source]▶
Where would they hang around? Curious to learn about other programming/tech communities
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1. mindcrime ◴[18 Jul 25 15:46 UTC] No.44606057[source]▶
There's a somewhat active community of COBOL developers here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cobol/

If you're every really bored, search around the HN archives to find out how I accidentally founded that community as a result of a joke. :-)