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Clojure is becoming increasingly popular in banks in the UK. (as I heard from trusted person)

• seanmcdirmid 12y ago
  What's up with the UK? Scala is also becoming increasingly popular in banks in the UK (as I heard from trusted persons). CLOS, Smalltalk, and Objective C (before it was cool) were for a long time very popular on Wallstreet.
  • seanmcdirmid 12y ago
    Supposedly, Haskell and F# are also big in UK banks. Wow.
    • ckarmann 12y ago
      For what it worth, this website ranks the popularity of some keywords in UK's IT job ads: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ Bank jobs are a big part of UK's IT jobs. There is a category "Programming Language", in which you can see Scala and Clojure has taken steam since 2010, even if interest in Clojure seems to have waned a bit this year (and now it trails COBOL or Delphi). Interestingly, the salary advertised for Scala and Clojure jobs are also larger than for the more popular programming languages.
  • julian_t 12y ago
    Yep… I can say from personal experience that Scala and Clojure are becoming popular in the financial world. There seem to be several drivers: the FP part appeals to the algo guys, immutability is attractive when looking at concurrency, and they can interop with the extensive existing Java codebase easier than some of the alternatives.