> You are. This is firm "I don't want to have to learn new things" territory, which isn't a viable attitude in this industry.

It's viable, but limiting. Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to, which is why it's called work. But if you can choose what platforms you work on, you can orient towards things where things change less, and then you don't need to learn new things as often.

Chances are, if you get into the weeds in a lot of C programs, Rust is in your future, but it's viable to not want that, and to moan about it while doing it when you need to.

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altairprime 3 days ago | parent [-]

No one’s laying off COBOL programmers. Specialization has its upsides once the market isn’t saturated!

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IshKebab 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Well only because 99% of the world's COBOL developers were laid off decades ago (or switched to another language).

	▲	altairprime 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The more things change,

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Tadpole9181 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

As someone with experience in this specific niche, yes they absolutely are. There are no longer ten thousand retail chains asking for COBOL-based counterpoint PoS mods on a yearly basis.

The COBOL market is basically tenured experts in existing systems or polyglots helping migrate the systems to VB or C# at this point. The market has plummeted and now it's in the final deflationary shrink before death.

	▲	altairprime 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, damn, I’m sad to hear that. Always respected the language. :/