Okay, I see what you’re saying and I concur. Thanks for the clarifying comment! 🫡

Holy smokes, working from home is not a “raise.” You should be compensated for the value you bring, not where you’re sitting when you bring value.

While they do rely on COBOL and old mainframes a great deal, that isn’t the only software supporting the company and its operations. That fact doesn’t negate what I’m speculating would be the cause.

These big banks have multiple programming teams that use different programming languages and work on different products.

If you go to their careers page, you will find tons of Java, .NET, and Python jobs posted. I’ve never seen a COBOL posting at a big bank (which doesn’t mean it’s never happened, but I can see any of these more modern languages posted any given day).

I’m willing to bet a team of untrained, uneducated, software/data engineers receiving big salaries are responsible for this.

It’s my understanding that big brand banks live on top of brittle, low quality, poorly tested code- and that’s if they’re not straight up using excel to run production processes.

🎶 Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found 🎵

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I find Go to be a great language. I read a couple of books on Go as I started learning it, and I learned about some of the items that the author is complaining from those books ahead of time (rather than encountering them as some sort of surprise or bug).

None of the author’s complaints with the language gained traction with me. I understand the complaints, but my reaction certainly wasn’t “I’m lying to myself about this so I can enjoy this language.” Perhaps it’s because my exposure to Go has been more limited than the author’s, or maybe Go is a great language and these complaints are just language features or trade offs that are good to be made aware of. 🤷‍♂️

…one of my early uses of Go was making libraries to be consumed from in a different language’s runtime. This was something the author made sound horrific, but something I was doing as a relatively new person to Go. I had to learn “how” to do it, but it certainly didn’t leave me feeling like it was “extremely hard.”

First thing: Ubuntu is the right choice. As far as I’m aware, having run Linux as my main desktop OS for almost a decade and playing with several flavors (…which includes Arch btw 😎), it’s the most polished out of the box desktop experience for someone completely new. It will also likely be the OS with the most Q&A existing on the web for problems you won’t be the first to have encountered.

Secondly, and maybe this should be first, and it sounds like you’ve already got this part down: you have to want to do this. Linux is just not mainstream for the majority of desktop computer users. If you’re not really wanting to do this, you’ll be frustrated when this isn’t the same experience as Windows. (but it sounds like you’re sick of the Windows experience. That’s what started me into Linux years ago.)

Lastly, as far as my quick Lemmy comment goes: Embrace the terminal! You can get around for a while as a Linux n00b on Ubuntu without opening that terminal, but at the end of the day, the *nix shell commands are what make working with Linux great.

The switch will take time. You’ll occasionally need to look up how to do stuff that may have felt simple in Windows… and that will usually be installing and running software that targets Windows only. However, the support for that sort of stuff gets better and better with time. Wine🍷 has come a long way.

It’s worth the journey IMO. For me, I was a PC gamer and I jumped straight into Linux with 0 experience. I learned a lot, spending a lot of time trying to make my Windows games run on Linux. Friends at LAN parties would joke about how I’d spend half the LAN party trying to get my games to run right.

The jokes were a good laugh, but my career shifted since then and my Linux experience carried right over into software development. Everything I deploy is on Linux servers or in Docker containers. All those years fooling around and tinkering with Linux as a PC gamer were loading me with experience that people would pay me for one day.

Good luck! 🐧

Is Europe no longer considered western?

I love to see a new Dart / Flutter project take off!