Comment by pjmlp
15 hours ago
I think in 2026 complaining about verbosity is a moot point, when folks are programming writing book sized Markdown files for AI tools.
Heck, even complaining about COBOL programming feels like a joke now.
Kudos on you Ada adventures.
I started recently to learn Cobol, since 2 companies my friend and son were working at need them desperately. They would prefer people with experience in the bankiing/finance industry, but at this point all the over 60s guys are leaving, and nobody is left to pick up the mantle. They told me even though the money is great >$225k starting, people don't want to maintain legacy Cobol code with very high risk if you mess up.
The language is actually relatively modern, it kept up with time (latest ISO version is from 2023), and there are even IDEs like Rocket Visual COBOL, granted not something that you might get on e.g. z/OS, but there are others.
It actually compiles to native code, it handles well its use case, batch processing business data, and despite everything less verbose than most agents markdown files I keep seeing.
Yes the risk is there, but it is also there for any kind of legacy application in enterprise scenarios, which is why most migrations fail.