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There is a disproportionate usage of Erlang in the finance industry. That might be part of its high salary.
by snarfy 9y ago
There is a disproportionate usage of Erlang in the finance industry. That might be part of its high salary.
- jnordwick 9y agoIn years of finance mostly involved in trading, exchanges, and risk - from prop firms to bulge bracket. I can count 3 times I've seen Erlang used. None of them have been major projects. It is still overwhelmimgly dominated by C++ and core Java with some Python in there too.
- OskarS 9y agoI mean, that's three times more than I've seen it used. I'd wager that finance is a second only to telecoms when it comes to "industries that use Erlang".
- dhruvmittal 9y agoOCaml as well-- the first place that comes to mind is Jane Street.
- TurboHaskal 9y agoThe first and the only.
- spyrosg 9y agoWhat about Ahrefs? Also, some people must be using Ocaml's cousin F#, or Jon Harrop would not have a job. Edit: oh, finance. Right.
- TurboHaskal 9y agoLast time I've checked, Harrop was everything but happy with the current F# situation (tooling, ecosystem, etc.)
- synaesthesisx 9y agoI've met a few devs from Jane Street - very nice people. Had the pleasure of meeting Yaron Minsky as well (he was a guest lecturer). Harvard had an entire intro course dedicated to OCaml...while it was a nice introduction to functional programming I can't say I've ever touched the language since...