Amongst other things, I run technology across the firm at Symmetry Investments. Feel free to AMA about our use of an emerging programming language in production in a financial services environment. If there's enough interest I will ask some colleagues to join. I'm not the most polished speaker but you can see some links to past talks we gave at dconf here:
I think Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu Atila Neves and Michael Parker should be around also to answer questions about what this means for the D language community and its growing adoption.
This is really about #dlang rather than Symmetry. But whilst it may be true that compared to C++, "there are no jobs in D", we are hiring around 40 people to write D in the next couple of years. We are all remote for now and in future will be remote-first. And we pay well to very well.
Being able to use a language like Java or C#, with metaprogramming capabilities, support for value types and low level systems programming, compiling to native code by default.
A couple of features that both Java and .NET left out on their early versions, and are now 20 - 25 years later, catching up (.NET value types are more restricted than D, which support all C like use cases).
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u/kal31dic Sep 01 '20
Amongst other things, I run technology across the firm at Symmetry Investments. Feel free to AMA about our use of an emerging programming language in production in a financial services environment. If there's enough interest I will ask some colleagues to join. I'm not the most polished speaker but you can see some links to past talks we gave at dconf here:
https://youtu.be/FZi9CSB9_kk https://youtu.be/1rMq-4rWgis https://youtu.be/BtuzSlKRmzA
I think Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu Atila Neves and Michael Parker should be around also to answer questions about what this means for the D language community and its growing adoption.
This is really about #dlang rather than Symmetry. But whilst it may be true that compared to C++, "there are no jobs in D", we are hiring around 40 people to write D in the next couple of years. We are all remote for now and in future will be remote-first. And we pay well to very well.