Ask HN: Experience with freelance development that is Not web dev or mobile?
Curious to what sort of applications you've made and how you got into it? Languages used? Thanks!
Got the work through a family friend, it's his business. I had to learn COBOL (managed through Visual Studio these days thank god) and have ended up contributing to the main application, converting Microsoft c++ and c# examples into COBOL, e.g Gdi32 printing, windows forms, wpf and so on.
Luckily as it's Managed COBOL and based on .NET you can call classes written in C++/C# so I've been doing that where possible!
Good fun and completely different to my usual line of Web Dev.