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Re:Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming ... by herewego on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:53PM (#14108708)
Myself and my colleagues do a lot of work in finance and machine learning where low level C++ is king, and we are highly paid for knowing the language intimately. You can generalize this across many parts of the finance industry in my experience (I own a mid-sized ML consulting firm).
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Re:Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming ... by taway_1212 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:05PM (#14109433)
Interestingly, from what I'm seeing, in London even most HFT jobs are in Java now. From what I've read, they figure it's easier to write HFT Java than C++, which says a lot about their difficulties with C++ (not only the language itself, but difficulties with hiring people expert enough in C++).
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