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Well there's gonna be people writing code who can't do it in say a high performance C/C++ setup. Not professional programmers, but professional <some finance d
by dmoy 1y ago
Well there's gonna be people writing code who can't do it in say a high performance C/C++ setup. Not professional programmers, but professional <some finance discipline>.
Sometimes it will be worth the tradeoff to put that person and a programmer together to code up a solution in another language. Sometimes it will be worth it to have the non-programmer write it in Python and then do Herculean things in the background to make it fast enough.
- instig007 1y ago> Sometimes it will be worth it to have the non-programmer write it in Python and then do Herculean things in the background to make it fast enough. Nim exists, Crystal exists
- dmoy 1y agoIt would not surprise me if some shops end up using less common languages to fill a niche (or hell, invent their own DSL). But it also wouldn't surprise me if a lot of shops land on python because that's what their hiring pool knows.
- skeledrew 1y agoWith insignificant ecosystems, compared to Python.
- procaryote 1y agoThe gulf between high performance C/C++ and Python is vast and includes most other programming languages, many of which are friendly to write or can be made friendly to write for a limited domain, with significantly less rocket science needed than making python faster.