cobol-programming-course VS Learn-Vim

Link: https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course

IBM has some Open mainframe Training course

https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co...

Also, mainframes are really good at high throughput transactional jobs. That's why you see them in banks, transportation, insurance, etc. Big Tech™ doesn't see it as "cool" and are too focused on the Next Big Thing™, so there's not a lot of attention there. Sometimes, boring just gets the job done.

A great learning resource for COBOL is the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL Programming Course. The content is self-paced with labs and the best part is you get to do the labs on a real Mainframe.

Check it out: https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co...

It's certainly not as straighforward as learning a more popular language and environment, but there are online resources if you look for them. A quick search yielded https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co...

There appears to be an active community around it, and I'm sure getting help in an apprenticeship sort of way is possible. Again, we're talking about a niche language, so you can't expect the same level of accessibility as NodeJS or Go.

As for finding jobs, they're probably few and far between, but appear to be well paid from what I've heard. Places that need COBOL programmers will announce it, opportunities will likely come up from other contacts in the community, and cold contacting companies you know are using it is always an option.

There's a free course hosted by Open Mainframe Project here: https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course

And this comprehensive guide: https://github.com/iggredible/Learn-Vim

As far as books go, Pro Vim helped me a lot. I also really like Learn Vim on Github You might already have a program called vimtutor that walks you through Vim basics.

I am learning through this repo. you can try out.

I found this extremely useful to learn Vim https://github.com/iggredible/Learn-Vim

I first tried the wrong way to learn Vim: memorizing keybindings. That's not helpful at all.

Write way to learn Vim: understanding Vim "grammar" as this repo teaches.

(macro snippets taken from here)

If you want to learn more about buffers, windows, and tabs, check out this chapter from my Vim book: Ch02 - Buffers, Windows, and Tabs (it's free!).

I've been watching this repository, and since the previous release the attention, and number of issues, has exploded! It looks like there is a ton of demand for a faster vs-code style editor that runs natively and cross-platform. Lapce now has more stars than https://github.com/iggredible/Learn-Vim or https://github.com/audacity/audacity , and I think it leads in number of stars for text-editors implemented in Rust.