What would scare me the most is the bad tooling. I do rely on my tools to search for references, etc. I wonder if it’s even possible to write a good analyzer for COBOL. Verbose operators and literals wouldn’t scare me at all.

Still would jump at the chance. It would have to be remote and I would strongly prefer being the only engineer touching the code.

I am a professional software engineer. My favorite ecosystem is the Java one which may explain some things.

Why is verbosity such a bad thing? Especially in the context of maintaining something someone else wrote? I would much rather maintain old Java than say, old Perl. I want big long names. So I have a better idea of what they were for! I can pretty much read any line of Java from anywhere and have a very good idea what it’s actually doing.

Sure, it’s more of a pain to type but as a kid one of the best investments I made in myself was to take a typing class. I did this way before I discovered my passion for programming. I can type fast. And I can make my editors type boilerplate for me.

Edit: Give me the time to learn it (I’m confident I can learn it fast) and the ability to work remotely and I would jump at the chance. I can do the fun programming (in Java) in my spare time.

Pay me to do it remotely and I’ll jump at the chance

I love Java! And I love that video.

I do miss movie theater popcorn but otherwise streaming at home all the way

I actually saw The Matrix that way, wandering through the mall with my girlfriend after dinner, and the poster looked interesting to both of us. Hadn’t heard a thing about it. That was a cool experience.

That must’ve been awesome

That movie blew my mind and it’s one of the very few I paid to see multiple times in theaters. I think that one was four times.

Designing custom types are one of my favorite things about programming

I love programming in Java. It continues to be my language of choice.

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Mattel Toy Cinematic Universe

Java

I have never watched it

Now I want to watch Andor

Hadouken?

This is horrifying to me for some reason

Besides, we still have to use checkout for checking out a previous commit

git switch works on commits too. I don’t think you have to use checkout anymore.

I follow communities with the same theme in different instances

Granted, I am starting out, but this is something I wouldn’t do. Which I figure would cut down on seeing what you’re describing.