Out of curiosity what about COBOL appeals to you? My first job out of college was working with RPG on an AS/400 (so I'd consider it at least a cousin) and the experience was awful.
Basically wanting to work with a true legacy system, colloquially I feel like
legacy" typically means "abandoned php/java8/c#" project. COBOL projects are older than me!
I think it would really help me grow as an engineer to understand how these systems are maintained, how they are tested, and how they are updated; what better way than something several decades old?
I feel like this is hard to find in the modern era, especially post 2010 onward.
Ah, interesting. I will admit I learned a great deal in the 2 years, though not all of that was the things you said. For me it was we had a lot of different codebases because each client had their own needs (beyond everyone who used our payroll system including printing checks, but that system rarely needed maintenance) so I had to learn to quickly read and understand a codebase to be able to make changes w/o spending days/weeks getting up to speed.
Interesting reading your comment as well! I honestly don't know what I would expect to learn just writing would I think would happen. :D
Thinking about it more, I don't think I've met single person that ever touched a COBOL code base throughout my career (talking from ICs up to VPs here). It seems the "oldest" was always some early Java project from early 2000s.
