It might be my area. Most COBOL infa got replaced or is on life support. But I did happen to see the good stuff once in a while. There's a reason it was not touched.
A small part of me thinks it might be the place to retire. Working on old code bases.
I used to work with COBOL. The language isn't terrible, it's the 40+ years of no context changes that suck. It even works with SQL... although the most common configuration is using a flat file.
There's automation and you can do it manually if needed. For example I have a couple of emulators that pull every 24 hours from GitHub just in case nint tendo gets a little lawsuit heavy. I also have one offs from GitHub that pull down when I want.
You can also mirror a public repo from GitHub into a private repo so it does not gets indexed/ai trained.
I had the same issue. I had to turn off AI features and it started working again. Specifically it stopped working on a peice of legacy code that had hundreds of thousands of lines of code all in one file. No idea what version of vscode but it was fairly recent.
Yeah it's been a little less than a year since it stopped working. I saw the GH issues, looks like the Lemmy devs took the position the Peertube devs need to fix....something with activityhub. I hope they fix things. Lemmy development vs the actual instances seem a bit more fragmented than the rest of the fediverse.
I tried to take a look with my local Lemmy instance but it looks like the issue resides in how different Lemmy uses activityhub than other software. I don't claim to know why they made the change but they seem to be the odd one out.
Yep I remember the same complaint 10+ years ago. They are jr for a reason.