Re:Never Retire
by mech422 on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:14PM
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sounds like a good plan :-) Trick is to be on the edges - either leading edge or trailing edge. That's where the competition is lowest and the compensation is highest. I do cloud architecture/infrastructure atm, but I figure I'll fund my retirement by being the last living COBOL programmer :-P
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Re:Never Retire
by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:22PM
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That's way harder to accomplish unfortunately. Unless I study COBOL too
Hehe - yeah.. by the time millennials retire I'm not sure what it would be ... Java maybe ?
Re:Never Retire
by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:44PM
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I thought about that, but Java is also the most widespread language, so I don't know if it will be similar to COBOL (I don't know how widespread COBOL was)
COBOL was very widespread - there used to be more lines of COBOL in production then any other language (Mostly mainframe and (super-)mini computer stuff (banks, govt, insurance, etc.)
In another 20-30 years, Java might be a lot less popular then Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc? So lots of Java that needs maintenance and not many people left to do it??
Re:Never Retire
by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday February 02, 2024 @08:50PM
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Unpopular stance, but the Fishtank Graph[0] tells the story.
PHP is actually a good bet.
[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...
oh yeah - Can't believe I forgot about Perl and PHP !!
Those could be good bets too. Always fun to speculate whats still gonna be around in 20-30 years :-D
Re:Never Retire
by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:19PM
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PHP is a good bet, but it still powers 50% of the internet.
That's A LOT of websites...