| Hi villagefool, so you've lots of legacy C++, then I'd suggest you better stay there and rewrite performance critical parts effectively with ANSI C code. Honestly I think StackOverflow is a better Platform for questions like this. You'll see that the answer to your question is: "Yes, use both."
source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/953428/event-loop-vs-mult...
I think YCombinator is more of a community of entrepreneurs and investors, who can give you concrete advice on questions regarding technology decisions, but even though you'll also get quality answers to to CompSci questions, those type of questions are betters answered over there at SO. Coding-Standards exist to allow "easier maintenance" of your application. You better check if there's an ISO-Standard for your branch, that defines the best practices in your business. Here are "Google's C++ Guidelines" for example:
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x... but you'll need Coding Guidelines that fit better to your branch. Maybe you'll find some guidelines on the pages of the SEC http://www.sec.gov I think there are people who automatically build up prejudices when you say "App" to something large like a Trading-Platform, but that mustn't be the case. I believe there are also people who'll think that you know what they want when you talk about complex things in the form of an "App" (something they know). Just be aware of it. Can you answer me a question?
How is Cuppertino, CA for a Software-Developer? (I won't work for Apple, just about to stay there for a while) |