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Don’t threaten me with a good time and job security.

What is not to like, job security, it is a compiled language, standard is still ongoing (there is even OOP support), one can write microservices in it, there are IDEs, and most relevant, it is still much less English to type than AI Markdown files.

As curses go, not a curse! https://github.com/loveOSS/awesome-cobol

I'm really confused by this list: every link I click on either doesn't work or takes me to a project for Go written in Go. I haven't been able to navigate to a single Cobol project.

Yeah, going back and checking, it is weird. My bad, I am a little embarrassed, I too find no cobol, only Go.

To make up for my transgression ...

Here is Doom in Cobol tho https://github.com/deios0/cobol-doom

Rock Paper Scissors in Cobol as a Cloudflare Worker https://github.com/cloudflare/cobol-worker/blob/master/src/w...

Still excited to see C++ get slowly replaced by better languages.