I was amused that AOL is still a thing :)

aol.com?

What if you want to change one reference in a billion reference array?

What would scare me the most is the bad tooling. I do rely on my tools to search for references, etc. I wonder if it’s even possible to write a good analyzer for COBOL. Verbose operators and literals wouldn’t scare me at all.

Still would jump at the chance. It would have to be remote and I would strongly prefer being the only engineer touching the code.

I am a professional software engineer. My favorite ecosystem is the Java one which may explain some things.

Why is verbosity such a bad thing? Especially in the context of maintaining something someone else wrote? I would much rather maintain old Java than say, old Perl. I want big long names. So I have a better idea of what they were for! I can pretty much read any line of Java from anywhere and have a very good idea what it’s actually doing.

Sure, it’s more of a pain to type but as a kid one of the best investments I made in myself was to take a typing class. I did this way before I discovered my passion for programming. I can type fast. And I can make my editors type boilerplate for me.

Edit: Give me the time to learn it (I’m confident I can learn it fast) and the ability to work remotely and I would jump at the chance. I can do the fun programming (in Java) in my spare time.

Pay me to do it remotely and I’ll jump at the chance

I love Java! And I love that video.

Designing custom types are one of my favorite things about programming

I love programming in Java. It continues to be my language of choice.

Java

Besides, we still have to use checkout for checking out a previous commit

git switch works on commits too. I don’t think you have to use checkout anymore.

I’m currently using 34 out of 128 GB on my phone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RIP Weather Froggie 😢