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> Why keep investing in hopeless tech?

Because your codebase relies on it.

Death will be hard for any mainstream language (proof: COBOL), especially open source ones.

It might find not many new projects are started in it.



So you would upvote an article about "COBOL needs a new vision" on HN?


I don't think that follows from what he said.


PHP and COBOL both cannot change vision after so many years, that's my whole point.




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