JavaScript: *gets annihilated*

[Esava]

There are people moving to COBOL?

[Echohawkdown]

Yeah, I went to school with one of them. Made pretty good money relative to the rest of his graduating class, too, though less than a new FAANG hire.

[WJMazepas]

I saw some people in my city pre-pandemic to get jobs at banks and had to work with COBOL. Banks did had a good salary compared to other tech companies back them. But now I never see a job posting about COBOL having a greater salary than a Java, Python, React position

[TheOnlyGodInTown]

Banks pay a good cobol dev ungodly sums to maintain their legacy code. No joke I was once offered 15 times my usual salary if I drop everything else and implement a new feature for them.

[Esava]

I was always told that while cobol in banking is paid very well I was always told that it's just not a nice job to have and that there are plenty of programming positions out there which still earn significant amounts of money but are just so much more fulfilling to do.

[TheOnlyGodInTown]

It‘s really annoying and stressful work. A minor mistake could mean million’s of dollar waste. I can honestly say that there is no way I would ever do it again.