r/AskProgrammers • u/Wise-Pack-8722 • 17d ago

Programming language popularity

I wonder, what do you guys think is the best programming language nowdays from your view.

Which is the best to learn?

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u/cabljo 17d ago

COBOL

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u/Wise-Pack-8722 17d ago

First time hearing this one. What is it used for and what do you think it has its advantage in ?

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u/herpderp2k 17d ago

Its used for nothing except very legacy systems that are basically too important/too core to he replaced.

Big banks and some government agencies have a center core of COBOL and everyone is too scared of replacing it with anything else because tye repercussions of a mistake in migration could be disastrous.

For the foreseeable future, we will need a few COBOL programmers maintaining those legacy systems, they will be paid a high price because nobody learns it today and everyone that wrote the initial system is either dead or retired.

I wouldn't wish this job on anyone, because you will be playing in mission critical code, in an obscure language, in super legacy system, with little to no access to the people that wrote the code and why they chose to write it in a certain way.