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Re:Jane Street: How to Build an Exchange by edf13 on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:47PM (#34283626)
They didn’t fail due to their language choice
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Re:Jane Street: How to Build an Exchange by mr90210 on Friday January 06, 2023 @08:07PM (#34283841)
The author never said they failed because of language choice.

> By 2015, all the Java shops (and many of the C++ shops too) had failed. Lots of companies tried to do something other than C++, but most of them chose wrong.

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Re:Jane Street: How to Build an Exchange by pclmulqdq on Friday January 06, 2023 @09:12PM (#34284328)
It's hard to imagine that language choice wasn't a factor - or at least that the philosophical ideals that led to the language choice weren't a factor.
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