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Not niche, Jane Street uses OCaml (and they contribute a lot to the compiler, too), it is "a research-driven trading firm where curious people work together on
by johnisgood 2y ago
Not niche, Jane Street uses OCaml (and they contribute a lot to the compiler, too), it is "a research-driven trading firm where curious people work together on deep problems".
More about it here: https://www.janestreet.com/what-we-do/overview/ https://www.janestreet.com/what-we-do/overview/
- delta_p_delta_x 2y ago> where curious people work together on deep problems 'curious people': people who got jaded by academia and were attracted by the six- to seven-figure salaries at Jane Street. 'deep problems': Buy X units of Y instrument at A exchange, and sell Z units of said instrument at B exchange, and do this often enough that said company makes a pile of money for itself and its employees (mostly itself, given it can afford to pay its employees six to seven figures).
- johnisgood 2y agoJane Street is just one example, OCaml is widely used elsewhere, too. For example, the first compiler for Rust was written in OCaml, too. I mentioned Jane Street because it uses OCaml for high-frequency trading, and because they are huge contributors to OCaml.