Re: What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

Maybe this question is answered differently if your company is
software/consulting related or "customer only" in relation with IBM/as400.

I've seen in the lasts weeks several notices about "migrating to xxx due
the retired RPG peoples..." and even some big company reporting troubles
due the age of the RPG developers...
I knows this is a serious concern in a lot of shops, along with
difficulties for starting with young peoples.

As an clear topic in ¿midrange? there is plenty of free/cheap developer
books for "any" language/machine except RPG/as400, please do a search in
ebay or amazon.
For example, impossible to get an "Operator Tutorial" or "RPG learning" or
so material in spanish and other not english.

My son started coding with us, now developing games for apple+android.

btw our best developer (developing RPGfree, html and javascript, xml and so
on) is simply the older one.

2015-06-12 23:19 GMT+02:00 Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>:

Are there traditional IBM i developers making an exclusive switch to web
and mobile development?

I've mentored about half a dozen who have made the switch to developing
browser user interfaces nearly exclusively. Most were senior-level people.

(That is, developers that stop doing RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS and start doing only

PHP, Java, Node.JS, .NET, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript.)

One doesn't have to give up RPG and COBOL to handle requests from browsers
and generate appropriately formatted responses, unless dictated by
employers.

RPG and COBOL programmers tend to resist languages, frameworks, and
developer tools that make it harder to develop applications. They tend to
resist technologies that make their jobs harder.

I'm not sure if this is age-related or not.
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