My software has moved trillions of dollars. AMA
It's a software library that facilitates trades between counterparties, a.k.a. the Financial Information eXchange protocol. My journey from building a hardware accelerated HFT system to pivoting to high-level Typescript. Ask me anything if you're curious.
Before it all started, back in the early 2010s, I read about High Frequency Trading, and it sounded super interesting. I wanted to understand how it worked. Without knowing anything about it, I thought I could simply get a Xilinx dev board and start using Verilog to build a hardware appliance for fast trades. Little did I know that a cheap dev board with limited logic gates wasn’t even enough to fit an Ethernet IP, let alone the challenges of using Verilog. I soon realized that it's probably more suited for electrical engineers (EEs) than software engineers (SWEs).
I have written a lot of C code running on Unix supercomputers for fund managers.
Based on my perhaps limited experience, I would have never thought that any VM based language would be accepted for production use. Could you explain how and where your software is being used in the banking world.
I wasn't expecting TS and HFT in the same sentence. Are you pivoting to something else with TS? Surely it's not for HFT?
... can you say more than the absolute bare minimum you have so far? It's impossible to come up with any decent questions without knowing anything.
edit: wait, is this it? https://fixparser.dev/what-is-fix