COBOL - 30 Metrics & AHP Score
Introduction
COBOL is a Procedural, Imperative programming language first appeared in 1959, designed by CODASYL. Main use cases: Business Processing, Legacy Systems, Batch Processing.
30 Metrics
| Metric | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Stars | 25843 | 127 |
| Stack Overflow Tags | 402319 | 108 |
| TIOBE Rank | 124 | |
| RedMonk Rank | 128 | |
| PYPL Rank | 126 | |
| Average Salary (USD) | 71890 | 139 |
| Job Postings | 20447 | 98 |
| Benchmarks Score | 0.37 | 153 |
| Learning Curve | Easy | |
| Community Size | Medium | |
| Documentation Quality | 2 | |
| Ecosystem Maturity | 4 | |
| Industry Adoption | 4 | |
| Type System Complexity | 3 | |
| Concurrency Support | 5 | |
| Performance - Execution Speed | 5 | |
| Performance - Memory Usage | 6 | |
| Performance - Startup Time | 6 | |
| Tooling Quality | 2 | |
| Package Manager Quality | 4 | |
| IDE Support | 2 | |
| Debugging Experience | 2 | |
| GitHub Stars Rank | 127 | |
| Stack Overflow Tags Rank | 108 | |
| Average Salary Rank | 139 | |
| Job Postings Rank | 98 | |
| Benchmarks Rank | 153 | |
| Learning Curve Score | 9 | |
| Community Size Score | 5 | |
| AHP Score | 4.4 | 116 |
Hello World Example
DISPLAY 'Hello, World!'.
Main Use Cases
- Business Processing
- Legacy Systems
- Batch Processing
Popular Frameworks
- CICS
- DB2
AHP Score
COBOL AHP Score: 4.4 (#116)