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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: 0.214s | 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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degamad ◴[18 Jul 25 13:33 UTC] No.44604481[source]▶
I've had a bunch of recent projects reverse-engineering old COBOL code, in financial services.

Mostly to figure out the best way to replace the old systems with something newer, so not really as a "COBOL dev", though.

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donatj ◴[18 Jul 25 13:49 UTC] No.44604626[source]▶
Anything in particular you're replacing them with generally?

I heard a story about replacing COBOL with JavaScript ... and my skin still crawls thinking about it.

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1. Rendello ◴[18 Jul 25 18:47 UTC] No.44608375[source]▶
But think of the flexibility, freed from the shackles of numerical coherence!

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat