alt Hacker NewsCOBOL is not about the language, it's about the whole environment in the mainframe. LLM fanboys won't understand this. You need something like a mainframe with a 99.99% uptime no matter what happens in hardware, with live CPU swapping and such.
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michaelmrose • today at 6:55 AM
Can you explain why you need one machine never falling over ever instead of a cluster of machines never falling over at once collectively?
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raverbashing • today at 6:21 AM
Yes and that mainframe runs several other technologies besides COBOL, and more importantly, that don't depend on it (COBOL fanboys won't understand this ;) )
Erlang/Elixir/OTP has a resilient environment with hot swapping. Is that truly problematic?