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Interesting that he's going to a financial technology consulting firm whose products include algorithmic trading. It seems like that would be one of the last sp

• corprew 16y ago
  if you're planning on making wall street-level profits, the incremental server farm costs are probably pretty small by comparison
• petercooper 16y ago
  C++ and C# are big deals in the financial industry, but remember that programmer time is a lot more expensive than hardware time, and there could be wins to be had in extremely rapid development.
  • ruang 16y ago
    Good point, hadn't thought of that. A dynamic scripting language could be useful for backtesting as opposed to execution.
• ubernostrum 16y ago
  It seems like that would be one of the last spaces to be interested in a dynamic scripting language versus pure speed. Game developers learned the trick, a while back, of writing things like low-level graphics engines in C/C++, and then high-level control/flow/UI/plugin systems/etc. in "slow"-to-run but "fast"-to-develop-in languages. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if there were also plenty of tasks in the finance world which need code, but don't need hand-optimized-down-to-the-individual-instructions performance.
• rbanffy 16y ago
  > It seems like that would be one of the last spaces to be interested in a dynamic scripting language versus pure speed. First make it work. Then, make it fast. It's easier to optimize a correct program than to fix an optimized, but broken, one.