Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving
by closeparen on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:25PM
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How hard is it, really, to learn? Big Tech is constantly hiring people to work in technologies they don't know yet. We were all in on Go before anybody off the street knew it. Facebook has its own language. I'm sure businesses would prefer instant productivity, but is the training expense really bigger than the migration expense?
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The question isn’t how hard it is to learn but who is willing to embrace an old technology which for now it doesn’t even make financial sense. When $300/hour becomes the norm you’ll have plenty of resources. For now COBOL jobs aren’t very attractive
Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving
by brendoelfrendo on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:33PM
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Yeah, but... can you hire for it? Plenty of forward-looking developers are willing to learn Go, or whatever new hotness the SV scene is cooking up. I think pitching mainframe development to that same crowd is a much harder proposition.
Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving
by lotsofpulp on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:37PM
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A more expensive proposition. Dangle some high six figure salaries and it will also be the new hotness.
Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving
by denimnerd42 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:19PM
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nah, I think both ideas are wrong. that crowd would never want to work for a bank or insurance company in the first place unless desperate. due to their org structure they can never get any real value out of any 1 person, especially an engineer. so that salary will never exist in the first place.