This is like the unrealistic movie trope we all chuckle at in which a few badasses in their 70s have to come out of retirement to save the world because a long-forgotten horror has resurfaced and they're the only ones who know anything about it. https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792

Turns out New Jersey's system for processing unemployment claims runs on COBOL and has fallen down under the load https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/

Much of the world runs on COBOL and we never hear about it unless something breaks. https://twitter.com/DeanMai/status/993059861104615424

All joking aside, this is just a matter of supply and demand. It'll be much easier to find Cobalt programmers if you don't nickel-and-dime them.

(I'll show myself out.)