Re: Replace COBOL with Python?
From acquaintance (as a bystander) with such a "legacy rewrite in hot new language" project, pretty much as soon as they had an Minimum Viable Project, they needed to re-deploy some largish fraction of staff just to keep up with shifting language specs and rapid, often undocumented changes to the pile of dependencies.
It's a Red Queen's Race, where you have to run as fast as you can to stay in place.
OTOH, I've also been on the other side where the customer made regular "small" (their definition, meaning "Hey, come on, you're not going to make us write a change order") changes to the deliverables. Great way to end up a contractor on a defense-related project netting below minimum wage.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
