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When it comes to COBOL developers, there are a lot of developers retiring but there are also a lot of programmers being trained in COBOL every year. It’s for this reason that the average age of COBOL developers has stayed roughly the same for the past 2 decades despite retirements.
But that said the total number of COBOL developers is decreasing overall, which is an issue.
Not many young programmers want to learn COBOL. COBOL isn’t taught in many educational institutions. There are very few online resources that programmers can use to self-teach COBOL.
It’s a shame. COBOL is great for it’s specific use case but it isn’t very “accessible” in that regard when compared to other languages.
I feel this way about mainframes sometimes too, I had a class in mainframes but we weren’t really taught about job options or where they still fit in the industry.
When it comes to COBOL developers, there are a lot of developers retiring but there are also a lot of programmers being trained in COBOL every year. It’s for this reason that the average age of COBOL developers has stayed roughly the same for the past 2 decades despite retirements.
But that said the total number of COBOL developers is decreasing overall, which is an issue.
Not many young programmers want to learn COBOL. COBOL isn’t taught in many educational institutions. There are very few online resources that programmers can use to self-teach COBOL.
It’s a shame. COBOL is great for it’s specific use case but it isn’t very “accessible” in that regard when compared to other languages.
I feel this way about mainframes sometimes too, I had a class in mainframes but we weren’t really taught about job options or where they still fit in the industry.