TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/01/2016 18:34, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/7/2016 5:32 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:52 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> Sure, COBOL is still around on some mainframe somewhere too, but
>>> almost nobody knows it exists! :D
>> But those that do get £150k+ and almost all are over 60.
>
> I'm a little surprised that there aren't more young programmers seeing
> that money and learning some COBOL. It's not a hard language.
>

First, if a developer is working in banking, they are likely to be able 
to earn a big salary regardless of language. It's common for a senior 
Java developer to earn a £150k+ salary, here in the London banking 
sector. I doubt a junior COBOL developer would earn anywhere near that 
much, the banks would still want vast COBOL experience, not just knowledge.
So yeah, lets say a COBOL job would earn you 20-30% more than an 
equivalent Java role in a bank. Would it be worth to spend 2-5 years 
working in a COBOL role for that extra money, and racking up COBOL 
legacy experience, with the risk that in some years the technology might 
become obsolete? (unlike Java, for which the development experience 
woulds till count a lot for, in other ares) Well, maybe yes, maybe no, 
hard to say. Also depends on personal preferences of the developer.


Also, the fintech sector is propping up, with a bit of luck these 
outdated banking IT system will be a thing of the past soon. See for 
example: https://getmondo.co.uk/

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Bruno Medeiros
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