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> You're looking at it soley from the PoV of the company.

No, I'm not. I personally am not at all concerned about "dead-end tech stacks" because the kind of companies that care that you have specific skills rather than overall engineering competence are not the ones I want to work for. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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People in general don't want to work with dead languages - it is in fact a retention and recruitment problem.

I already agreed that "people in general" don't want that. I don't see how that refutes my argument that enough people don't think that way that it might have been cheaper to pay such a person.

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