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[–] frobeniusnorm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I swear to god, companies are nowadays just picking the solution with the most buzzwords. Any compiler engineering student knows how to write a transpiler from one language to another, while getting this right is a cumbersome task, it still completly automated afterwards. Just hire a few compiler engineering phds and the job is done in at least half a year.

Look what i found after a quick google search:

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[–] Dazawassa@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I thought everyone kind of knew this. And then the PCMag article dropped.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The more important a job is, the less paid the work is. Conversely, the more bullshit the job is, the more pay there is.

[–] ChiefSinner@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my experiemce, Java shoots processing usage up while COBOL uses much lesser CPU / memory

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