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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: 0.252s | 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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jamesponddotco ◴[18 Jul 25 15:07 UTC] No.44605487[source]▶
My brother works with COBOL for a bank here in Brazil, he is young (in his 20s), started before finishing his degree. Pay is poor, hours are insane, he is overworked as hell, and anything “modern”, like git, is out of the question.

He’s trying to learn Go now and modernize himself to see if he can get out. I’m trying to help as much as I can. Hopefully, he’ll land a job somewhere else this year.

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1. fock ◴[18 Jul 25 16:19 UTC] No.44606504[source]▶
at the banking place I work running things in k8s, z/OS-people are actually the ones running custom git clients in go on z/OS. Bonus: they have no nosy Java devs (recurringly producing threading bugs...) saying "but we all use spring boot!!!" and likely no manager asking "is this cloud-ready???"