alt Hacker News> Kind of like the fortran crisis of the last decade or so....
I’m convinced the only reason there’s a Fortran crisis is because nobody wants to work on Fortran or make a career out of it.
Has nothing to do with willingness to hire juniors. Good luck finding promising juniors who survey their career opportunities and decide that Fortran is a good technology for building their resume.
Pay them and they will. The problem with many people bemoaning the lack of Fortran and COBOL developers is that they are not willing to admit that the code they "need" to maintain isn't actually valuable enough to be worth paying what that maintenance costs.
It's like complaining that no mechanics work on carburetors anymore. Well some do, but they are expensive and not worth it to keep your old hoopty running. Might be worth it if you have a show-quality 1960's era muscle car.