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No mention of C++? (https://www.rentec.com/Careers.action?computerProgrammer=true https://www.rentec.com/Careers.action?computerProgrammer=tru... and probably m
by quantumofalpha 5y ago
No mention of C++? (https://www.rentec.com/Careers.action?computerProgrammer=true https://www.rentec.com/Careers.action?computerProgrammer=tru... and probably most HFTs)
- ncmncm 5y agoC++ is just the language everyone in the fintech world uses, as a matter of course, so not worthy of a story. It works and everybody knows it works. Failing would be news. Knight Capital was news! (Although, a worryingly large fraction of that world remain stuck on C++98 compiled with Gcc-4.) OCaml is an oddball language, its users are oddballs, and companies that employ them are oddballs. That makes it a good story when they show that they can actually succeed in a world utterly dominated by C++. OCaml is a pretty good, albeit GC'd, language just about to graduate to being able to use multiple cores, so now is an exciting time for its users.