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by mirekrusin 1522 days ago
Of course they use it for trading and everything around for many years.
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they use it for the control plane. it's clearly not used for actually submitting trades.
Do you mean this tool, or OCaml? They are definitely writing their actual trading systems in OCaml, they have been publicizing this for many years.
that is what i thought. the actual trading code is probably in c or c++ or is in an fpga being controlled by the trading code.
cool, so how about the OP shares the details of how they use it for trading?
That's largely what their excellent Signals & Threads podcast is about.

https://signalsandthreads.com/

> Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.