>>11507600It is, it's actually relatively good. For example, COBOL can handle decimals natively, while most other languages just have IEEE 754 floating-point numbers, which aren't as precise as you need to be in the banking industry.
COBOL runs on mainframe, which are their own little world, but pretty good at what they do. There's also inertia, nobody wants to change X millions lines of codes from Y to Z
>>11508371She worked, she made a few jokes about deadlines, death marches and black companies just after. Also nobody learns COBOL for a hobby, you learn Python, JS or C if you're autistic
>>11508544You'd be surprised by how little professional programmers know about their own tools. The other day a few of my colleagues thought that an access to an undefined property in JS would throw an exception
>>11511195I would, if that person is a bit good/interesting. Web shit where chat can interact with it could be pretty good
>>11517168The reliability comes from the mainframes and the contracts they come with. Nowadays you can put stuff on cloud services that comes with a SLA and it's pretty much the same thing. Mainframes aren't faster than "regular" servers from the same cost
