All hail the gods of OCaml.
As far as I can tell Jane Street's use of OCaml serves a dual function in talent acquisition and retention.
1. You attract the kind of Haskell adjacent academic talent who proves their natural curiosity by their interest in pure functional languages.
2. You are the only game in town for your newly created OCaml experts. Monopsony power baby!
Do they need to use a functional language? Almost certainly no.
I knew OCaml was being used by a number of big finance companies, or that it had been used. I really didn't know it was still active. Has anybody here used it? How was it?
How does one get in Jane Street? They do fascinating stuff.
There has always been a mystery around it since back in my college days.
Some great additions lately to open source from some very successful institutions. I hope that the "Open" public benefit corporations decide to follow in the footsteps of their poorer peers, the hedge fund managers, and giving a little something back.
Lists don't make great HN submissions, because the topic is then the common denominator of the things on the list, making discussion generic and therefore more shallow.
It's usually best to pick the most interesting item on the list and submit that instead!
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