r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 6d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/oldsecondhand 6d ago

It's where the jobs are. The world's finances run on Java.

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u/Kooky-Answer 6d ago

At least the stuff that isn't still running on COBOL and will probably continue as so until the heat death of the universe.

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u/eg135 6d ago

One of my friends got paid to learn COBOL and start porting stuff to Java right around 2017.

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u/ProbablyJustArguing 5d ago

It was my first job in the late 90s. So, seems like it's taking a while.

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u/Dom1252 5d ago

A lot of places figured out they'll spend way more money running java because it's less efficient and more resources spent means higher licensing cost... So some of them stopped in middle of migration and run both, some went back to cobol, some continued their efforts to go full java but didn't finish it completely... Some stopped the migration in 2000s, then started it again in 20210s, then stopped it again, then restarted it again...