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Why OCaml
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Apr 22, 2022
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⬐ b20000that seems to be a presentation about language features. I'm mostly interested in the business reasons for using the language within what jane street does, and how the language offers a competitive advantage and why it is "good enough" for the highly competitive HFT landscape they work in.⬐ brobinsonThe language features are the competitive advantage.
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⬐ yawaraminA lot of this talk was more 'What is OCaml' than 'Why OCaml', but here are the parts where he talked about the 'Why':- Jane Street is in a business where, because of the sheer volume, even the tail ends of normally distributed events happen with surprising frequency, so they don't feel confident deploying with just tests--they need the universal assurance that a typechecker gives
- The transactions they are involved in can be adversarial--someone actively working against their profit motive--so they need extra assurances about their code
- They got to hire some incredibly talented people who would otherwise have never considered Jane Street but for the choice of OCaml