If it makes you feel better, a lot of COBOL programmers actually wish it was extinct, because some of the systems they're maintaining are multiple decades old by now.
I suspect that if it wasn't for the virtualization drive behind 5G, Erlang would follow suit as a highly paid legacy language.
As it is, since many legacy telco systems are actually being replaced entirely by virtualized solutions, I see older companies still developing in it, but all hedging their bets on other things (I already mentioned C++ in another thread, but Go and Rust, backed by suitable frameworks that employ Raft and other sync/HA protocols, seem to be in the forefront).
I suspect that if it wasn't for the virtualization drive behind 5G, Erlang would follow suit as a highly paid legacy language.
As it is, since many legacy telco systems are actually being replaced entirely by virtualized solutions, I see older companies still developing in it, but all hedging their bets on other things (I already mentioned C++ in another thread, but Go and Rust, backed by suitable frameworks that employ Raft and other sync/HA protocols, seem to be in the forefront).