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Can someone explain to me why Jane Street - a trading firm - is so all in on OCaml? There's lots of other choices that would be easier to recruit for, with wid
by andrewstuart 3y ago
Can someone explain to me why Jane Street - a trading firm - is so all in on OCaml?
There's lots of other choices that would be easier to recruit for, with wider community and industry support.
Where does the Jane Street commitment to Ocaml come from?
- cosmic_quanta 3y agoMy recollection is that their systems used to be based on Excel (in the very beginning). A new hire (Yaron Minsky) started using Ocaml for some research project and it stuck.
- emmelaich 3y agohttps://blog.janestreet.com/why-ocaml/ https://blog.janestreet.com/why-ocaml/
- ng12 3y agoIt lets them hire the types of people excited by Ocaml.
- NikkiA 3y agoI think it started off because they needed more speed than the higher level languages like ruby and python could give them (at the time), but couldn't justify writing in a low-ish level like C/C++. I suppose they might have landed on something like Pascal or Fortran, maybe even a lisp, if they'd hired a different developer who had to make the search.