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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by hindsightbias on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:26PM (#26429780)
System Z is not just COBOL. C/C++, etc and Linux has run over there for years.

If I could go back 30 years, I’d have made more money, slept better and would have more hair on Z. Not that I can say for a new generation but now that everyone is a “full stack” developer and the stack changes every few years, I’d still prefer longer term niches if I was 22 again.

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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by monoideism on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:26PM (#26431243)
> If I could go back 30 years, I’d have made more money...

Compared to webdev? I'm very skeptical. The following scenario seems more likely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26431085

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