The share of searches per million for the programming language COBOL on the job site Indeed grew 707% during the coronavirus crisis. While job seekers are interested in the language — largely ...

Yes, Cobol is dying -- just not yet. In that gap, some wily coders see opportunity for a career, or at least a secure job.

Payson has the names of more than 2,500 COBOL experts in his database alone. “The challenge is not just finding veteran COBOL people, but finding COBOL developers who know the Internet,” he says.

While COBOL is solidly into middle age ?ö?ç?? and many COBOL developers are well beyond that -- companies such as Micro Focus, Microsoft and Veryant are moving to help enterprises take legacy ...

Cobol and Node.js may seem like an odd pairing, but a developer has created a link between the two platforms, despite criticisms ...

IT wants to modernize a great deal of its COBOL apps in the near future—but will an aging workforce leave organizations shorthanded?

* COBOL developers are retiring much faster than they are being replaced as educational institutions emphasize more cutting edge technologies.

With states issuing pleas for volunteer coders, we set out to learn more about the woman-invented language powering the mainframe computers that process unemployment claims, and why there's a shortage ...

Finding developers with the language skills to maintain a legacy system became a nationally recognized issue: More COBOL programmers are in retirement than in IT departments right, according to a ...

As COBOL developers retire, they take with them years of essential knowledge and road mapping for the overall functionality of a specific system.