Huge announcement. I'm leaving Bloomberg as an OCaml Engineer. And. I'm joining Bloomberg as a C++ Engineer. After using Functional Programming primarily for the last 10 years, it's time for me to switch gears. I moved to another team internally. I'll be working on low-latency

I'm providing extra C++ content to my subscribers. Just finished explaining a standard problem in finance with examples and all the algorithms involved. I'm still learning C++ but I'm more than happy to share my learning journey with everyone. A brief preview of the content.

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

Voted for "Niche interests+insights". C++ is niche, right 👀.

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1 month into writing C++ at Bloomberg. I've been given a task to fix the most complex algorithm our team owns. I don't know what I did to deserve that.

C++ has Fold Expressions, ranges and Monads.TypeScript has Effect.And now Java has Monoids. Functional Programming is finally mainstream.

This is the power of small composable tools that do one job and do it great. Modern tech rarely composes.

Isn’t it amazing that fundamental Unix tools like ls, head, tail, grep, xargs and others were written in C like 40 years ago and they still run the world without bugs.

Zohran Mamdani: He votes for activists, not you

I’m guilty of trying to rewrite as much as possible to Haskell.

You do understand that in 10 years the next generation of programmers will just reimplement all existing frameworks and patterns but in new trendy languages, right?.

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I watched an incredible talk by Simon Marlow about his experience using Haskell at Meta for 12 years. Simon is a Haskell legend and he’s responsible for creating a fantastic concurrency story in Haskell. This talk resonated with me a lot, especially about why it’s hard to grow

I'm attending a C++ training today. The lecturer shows a code sample and says, "A person who just graduated would write inefficient code like that.". It's the exact code I wrote yesterday 🫠. Chat, it's so over.

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When you have this likes to bookmarks ratio, you know you posted a banger

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POV: you’ve been writing C++ professionally for one month

I don’t block accounts first here, I just mute them if they’re continuously obnoxious. But if I accidentally see someone blocked me, I block them back. Both can play this game. If you’ve been blocked, that’s the only reason it could happen. If you see injustice, let me know,.

this song has been stuck in my head all day and now it's stuck in yours

As an SWE,. You should at least have a concept of a plan how to build something like an OS, compiler, linker, browser, web app, mobile app, video game, or VM,. From scratch.

For the confused, "Vec" here is short for "Vector". We programmers love using shorter names to increase our productivity.