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I thought c++ would still be most popular for trading code? For hft isn't ability to reason about performance and control memory allocation and deallocation ea
by bbcbasic 10y ago
I thought c++ would still be most popular for trading code?
For hft isn't ability to reason about performance and control memory allocation and deallocation easier in a lower level language?
- shoo 10y agonothing stopping them from hiring haskell programmers and putting them to work writing C++ all day.
- lucozade 10y agoC++ and Java for the most part. However, I'm not sure that finance hoovering up all the Haskell programmers (even if that were true) would have any impact on that. The number of Haskell programmers, in total, is small compared to the number of C++ and Java programmers in finance. It also may be worth pointing out that finance companies, especially larger ones, are rarely homogeneous in their development environments. For example, the Haskell wiki's industry page has the names of a large number of banks that use Haskell. I have worked at a few of them and know a fair number of people at others and I don't know anyone that does any production Haskell. Plenty of Java, C++, Python, C# and Scala though.
- joe563323 10y agoI think the op is trying to make the point that bright coders(who else will invest time in Haskell) are hired by cash cow companies and get them to work on other languages.