[ebiester]

On the other hand, “we cannot hire anyone to work in COBOL/Perl 5.8/Tcl/other outdated language” is a very real problem. It turns out that 2018, developers are judged for working too long in old technologies even when we know as in industry that a developer can learn a new language.

[gaius]

I wonder if that’s really true. I bet loads of people would be delighted for the chance to go on using their old favourites.

[wffurr]

It's absolutely true. People with enough experience to have "old favorites" tend to be very senior and expensive or retired.

New grads and junior engineers can end up trapped in a career dead end if their first job is on seriously old legacy tech.

https://medium.com/@csixty4/pick-was-post-relational-before-...

I almost fell in the same trap, but quit a similar job to go back to grad school and get my Master's in CS.