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by cranky908canuck 657 days ago
Not sure if COBOL is actually 'stigmatized', but it definitely doesn't match the experience requirements in the job postings for most places where young programmers want to end up.

It might well make a "second half of a career" job for not-quite-so-young programmers looking for an alternative to the tech-stack-of-the-month carousel. But the jobs tend to be with big old orgs (so, start with banks and government), which might not seem so attractive.