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[โ€“] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How the hell do you find Perl devs these days? Recruiting at retirement homes?

If you build a project in a dead language you end up having to migrate to something to mass market like Java just so anyone else can work on it.

Shit man, I love Ruby but it would be professional malpractice to start a new project on Rails.

[โ€“] CycliCynic@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Man, I entered my company two years ago for cobol and basic development. The only way to continue is to spend a lot to train new devs.