• @cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59•1 year ago

    I’ve seriously looked into picking one of these dead languages up and honestly, it’s not worth it.

    Biggest issue is, you have to be experienced to some degree before you get the name your price levels. So you’ll have to take regular ol average programmer pay (at best) for a language that’s a nightmare in 2023. Your sanity is at heavy risk.

    I’d honestly rather bash my head with assembly, it’s still very much in use these days in a modern way. Most programs still get compiled into it anyway (Albeit to a far more complicated instruction set than in the past) and can still land some well paid positions for not a whole lot of experience (relatively)

    • @kucing@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Yeah man I’ll take plain old php and java any time of day, I can still get enough money from it to pay my lifestyle. And at 5pm I can close my laptop and play vidya with no worries.

    • @SamirCasino@lemm.eeEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      Been working in COBOL for a decade and this is all true.

      I’m lucky. I personally enjoy it. But i can totally see how it’s an absolute nightmare for most people.

    • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      I’ve been meaning to learn Fortran in part because because of the whole “big bucks for being willing to maintain old software” thing, but mostly because I’d like to work on the sorts of scientific computing software that was (and still often is) written in Fortran.