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It’s not completely irrelevant. Like I said, if you know you need big iron you use big iron (I dealt with as400s and cobol for years).

But it’s not a commonly taught tech anymore. I look at it like a lot of niche languages. Erlang has a lot of great advantages but if it costs several multiples more budget to hire for I’m going with python if I can get away with it.

I will always use the most boring possible tool to solve a problem because I don’t want to get stuck as the “that thing” guy. And because I’d rather spend my “effort” bucks on stuff that directly makes me money.

Edit: I’ve seen zseries feature set and it’s impressive. Still not going to use it over AWS if I can get away with it.