[mchelpa]

I used to maintain COBOL system written in late 90s at a previous job. There are still new features released, mostly because of legislation changes. Since the core codebase is from the 90s, we never used new COBOL features like OOP.

I am observing an increased demand for COBOL devs in Poland since developers in western countries are retiring. Companies will hire anyone willing to learn it for a good money. Maybe the new generation of COBOL developers will use some of the new stuff. In my opinion it would add unnecessary complexity. You need COBOL to implement a read/write API to the mainframe and handling more sophisticated stuff should be done with a modern language.