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0 pointstrue_religion4y ago0 comments

People use nodejs in finance backends too. Its async operators make it easy to munge different data streams together and fan in/out results.

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vmception4y ago

oh this is something to say louder for the people in the back: there is no reason that finance and computational finance gravitated around python

there is nothing inherent about that language aside from people not having made some libraries in other languages

javascript especially nodejs is fine for most people's finance cases

nuclearnice34y ago

It's true there is nothing inherent. Because all these non-statically typed garbage collected languages with Algol-like syntax are basically the same language. Given that it makes sense that the decision is made based on libraries, community, inertia and whim.

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vmception4y ago

oh this is something to say louder for the people in the back: there is no reason that finance and computational finance gravitated around python

there is nothing inherent about that language aside from people not having made some libraries in other languages

javascript especially nodejs is fine for most people's finance cases

nuclearnice34y ago

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