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

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. :/