Summary: According to the video, Cobal is a 60-year-old programming language that is still widely used in banking, finance, and healthcare. The speaker of the video discusses why Cobal is still relevant even though it is a not a popular language to learn.
This isn’t news and the title is dumb: there are COBOL programmers out there, but you gotta pay them.
And so what if the language is old? That’s a dumb argument.
You’re right, this ageism is stupid. Common lisp is probably its contemporary, yet is great. Cobol does seem like a nightmare though.
To me it seems… boring AF to learn, and i think the real challenges are not the language itself bu the environments it’s deployed in.
Still on my to do list.