5 reasons to learn mainframe programming

If you’re an ambitious developer, you probably tend to follow industry buzz wherever it leads -- whether that’s Docker, Spark, or Kendo. Staying on the cutting edge increases your market value, keeps your work rewarding, and helps you avoid the potentially fatal mistake of complacency.

But if you’re really ambitious, it could be smart to go contrarian and add a decidedly un-buzzworthy technology to your resume. In fact, that technology is the very antithesis of buzz, because people have been pronouncing it dead since before you were born.

It’s the mainframe. Here are five reasons to give it a fresh look.

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