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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Just make the devs learn the language if they don’t know it already. What kind of shitty mid to senior dev can’t learn a new language in a reasonable amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think it's a matter of expertise. I am stuck dealing with people who write Javascript/Typescript like it's C# because they're C# senior devs. It's not world-ending until issues of speed, scale, or other "why we use best practices" raise their ugly heads. Then it is world-ending. I can only help with so many design standards when you still see everything show up in a classes-and-subclasses mindset with hard-to-catch concurrency bugs. I actually caught a developer trying to spin up a child process to wait on a socket response.

So in FinTech, I can imagine it becomes a bigger deal faster.