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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

At what point does the cost of tech migration outweigh the cost of training people on a more and more specialist paid language just to not have to migrate to a memory safe higher level language like C or Go or Rust or Lua.

Didn't say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

C and memory safety, name a more iconic duo /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Something something better tools too shoot yourself in the foot with something something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Didn’t say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

ah so we just need to persuade banks to switch to python. Noted