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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by brendoelfrendo on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:33PM (#26426647)
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.
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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by lotsofpulp on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:37PM (#26426694)
A more expensive proposition. Dangle some high six figure salaries and it will also be the new hotness.
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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by denimnerd42 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:19PM (#26427169)
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.
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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by guenthert on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:07PM (#26427038)
Might not be the same crowd, but some of us wouldn't mind to learn COBOL and get our hands on a mainframe (while at the same time wondering whether the world really needed Go).
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