Re:Why 4 Bloomberg engineers wrote another C++ book
by le-mark on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:03PM
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Can anyone comment on the scope and scale of Bloomberg’s c++ codebase? And is this their terminal system?
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Re:Why 4 Bloomberg engineers wrote another C++ book
by joshjhargreaves on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:34PM
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(Former employee of quite a few years). The C++ usage is high due to a lot of legacy systems written in C++, however most new development (unless performance critical is not written in C++. I would estimate that Bloomberg actually has more JavaScript than it has C++.
When referring to the Terminal itself it's important to note that as a 'system' itself, it's incredibly broad and complex. You can do so many things via the system, it's equivalent to the broadness of a web-browser. In fact the Terminal application is powered by chromium these days. But the systems it connects to can be anything from trading systems, to Chat applications.
Re:Why 4 Bloomberg engineers wrote another C++ book
by funstuff007 on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:24PM
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When did the terminal application move from Citrix to Chromium?