COBOL Comeback: What You Need to Know About This Old Language Brian T. Horowitz, September 17, 2020 5 min read COBOL (“Common Business-Oriented Language”) has been around for more than 60 years, but it has recently been...
4 Programming Languages That Won’t Fade Away Anytime Soon Nick Kolakowski, July 13, 2020 7 min read It’s easy to predict a programming language’s seemingly imminent demise. When Apple rolled out Swift in 2014, for...
Is COBOL Programming a Good Long-Term Career? Nick Kolakowski, May 12, 2020 4 min read Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there’s been a burst of news stories about a sudden need for COBOL developers....
COVID-19 May Drive Demand for COBOL Developers Nick Kolakowski, April 7, 2020 4 min read For years, state governments have resisted upgrading their aging mainframes and other hardware that support vital...
COBOL Developers Want to Stick with the Aging Language Nick Kolakowski, February 20, 2020 3 min read COBOL (“Common Business-Oriented Language”) is 61 years old. It has outlasted the Cold War, innumerable bad...
5 Programming Languages That Refuse to Die Nick Kolakowski, October 3, 2019 7 min read Not all programming languages will stay relevant forever. As technologies evolve, and companies ask developers to...
5 Most In-Demand Programming Languages in Finance IT, Banking Beecher Tuttle, August 9, 2019 7 min read These days, it's extremely rare for developers to be armed with a sole programming language; most mid- to senior-level...
5 Programming Languages Doomed to Extinction Nick Kolakowski, August 21, 2018 8 min read It’s the programming equivalent of the circle of life: programming languages are created, gain popularity, hit their...
5 Programming Languages Fading Away Dice Staff, March 6, 2017 5 min read Some programming languages take a long time to die. Companies and institutions are often unwilling to devote the...
Federal Agencies’ Problem with Ancient Tech Nick Kolakowski, May 26, 2016 3 min read The federal government spends the majority of its technology budget maintaining ancient platforms, including ones...
