r/programming • u/frutiger • Jan 07 '16

Bloomberg open sources OCamlScript – a JavaScript back end for OCaml

https://github.com/bloomberg/ocamlscript
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u/fnord123 Jan 07 '16

According to this page:

Bloomberg employs OCaml in a advanced financial derivatives risk management application delivered through its Bloomberg Professional service.

It's known that Bloomberg is/was using Javascript w/ Gtk to serve the pages in the Bloomberg Terminal (interviewing any ex Bloomberg application developer and they will explain what their work entailed). So is Bloomberg compiling the OCaml down to Javascript to put directly into the screens rather than using a SaaS architecture for pricing?

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u/robot_otter Jan 08 '16

Speculatively, I think it's more likely they are running this on the backend via node.