Many governments use COBOL too, governments are theoretically rich, but they also have many holes to fill.
Re:The code that controls our money
by bryanrasmussen on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:06AM
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good point, I don't have a good metric for weighing how much government benefits would increase the value therefore it might be that there is enough money on the table for gov employees that there can be said to be a shortage.
I guess I'm on that side, for the following reasons - the companies that want Cobol are companies that are pretty rich. Yet, Cobol salaries are on the low end for Software developers.
>I find it interesting that you can just pay more to buy or rent in SF, so by this definition there is no housing shortage in SF.
there's no housing shortage in SF for billionaires who are willing to pay whatever is asked. Did I mention my perception that the companies who want Cobol programmers are really rich.
Now, it may be that there is an actual Cobol shortage, I would even agree that it is likely because at the rate offered not very many people would be interested in learning a language generally derided and not much like other languages. But we cannot know that there is an actual Cobol shortage when the rates offered are less than those for Machine Learning experts.
If you offer top rates for Cobol programmers and can't get them, then you have a shortage.