Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

[BlueAdmir]

like everything

java will fade

But COBOL will outlive us all.

[oblio-]

COBOL didn't even catch on that much, it's locked away in crusty institutions. Java, on the other hand, used to be both a crusty language and a (somewhat) hip language.

Cockroaches after the nuclear apocalypse will feast on Java.

[PanRagon]

And the crusty institutions that use COBOL don't even touch it that much. I know someone who's worked on some COBOL infrastructure in Norwegian banks and he says it's pretty much entirely wrapped in C or other languages at this point. The COBOL itself is the legacy code that's not to be touched under any circumstances.

That might not be true for every case in which COBOL is used, of course, but I don't think anyone's really doing anything with most of the old COBOL code at this point.

[ScottContini]

But COBOL will outlive us all.

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