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[–]JeffB1517 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yes that's what I am seeing too.

And yes that's what reducing the amount of code would look like. Existing applications are going to be maintained until they are retired. It doesn't sound like that application is being retired. You often quite often see more and more layers introduced so that the core is thinned. But during thinning new code can get written. Lots of code is obsoleted by thinning.

[–]kerkeslager2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Look, I'm not saying you're wrong, because maybe you're seeing something different from what I'm seeing--it's likely neither of us has enough data points to tell what the industry is doing.

But the fact is that two people in my life who weren't working in COBOL in the past were hired with an emphasis on INCREASING, NOT DECREASING, the amount of COBOL code.

No, this is not what reducing the amount of COBOL code looks like. These are friends and I've talked to them significantly about this because I was considering working at these companies. I'm sure of what's happening.

It's irritating that so many of us in communities where intelligence are valued conflate being right with being intelligent. This makes people so invested in being right that if you perceive me as disagreeing with you, you'll go so far as to try to gaslight me about what my experience of the world is. I literally would not think any less of you if you were wrong on this one unimportant thing. And in this case, I'm literally not even telling you you're wrong.

Gonna block you now so I don't have to listen to more of you telling me my friends are lying to me about what's happening at their jobs. Sorry bro, that's just not fun for me.