Ask HN: Is there demand in industry for pdp-11 programmers?

I don't think there's much demand. I used to work on them but haven't seen or heard about one in decades, except for emulators. But I miss them, and the DecSystem-20. Craziest assembly language ever.

It's many years since I last saw or worked on a PDP-11. The only operational ones I know of are as embedded systems, that includes LSI-11 variants. That is, industrial and niche scientific applications.

I have worked extensively in finance and have never seen nor heard of a PDP-11 being used. A long time ago some DecSystems were in use. But those were all programmed in COBOL.

I worked on the for years. The LSI-11 was my favorite machine.