On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 08:31:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 05:39 +0000, ketmar via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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funny thing: those "financial sector" most of the time doesn't
give anything back. adding special decimal type complicating
the compiler and all backends. i myself never needed that for
my whole lifetime (and this is more than two decades of
programming, in various free and commercial projects).
Financial organizations generally want all their language
infrastructure for free (GCC, Python, Eclipse) anything they
write themselves is treated as asset and so theirs not for
anyone else.
Show them PyPy is 30x faster than CPython for their use case
but needs £50,000 to be production ready, and they carry on
using CPython. (And waste millions of £s in staff time waiting
for Python codes to finish.)
i'd say: "you want it? DIY or GTFO."
That leads to them using Java, Scala, C++, C# and Python. Which
they do.
I only know a certain portion of that world, but for example Jane
Street has done quite a lot for Ocaml, Bloomberg has released
some useful things including for languages, Morgan Stanley has
supported Scala, I have supported in a small way some things for
D and will be releasing a working Bloomberg API soon. Don't look
for innovation to come from the banks because they have had other
things to deal with, but even there there is the beginning of a
broader change in mindset.
EMSI are in econ not quite finance and they released containers.
Finance is just one more industry, but it's quite a pragmatic one
and still has a decent share of global IT spending.
