Any actuaries using D?

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 7 March 2021 at 19:06:47 UTC, data pulverizer wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 March 2021 at 12:11:53 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Sunday, 7 March 2021 at 11:43:11 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> Hedge fund != actuary
>>>
>>> As far as I understand, calculating risks is a big thing at 
>>> Symmetry. That's a core activity for an actuary as well.
>>>
>>> — Bastiaan
>>
>> Calculating risks is a big field. There will certainly be some 
>> overlap between techniques that an insurance firm 
>> (particularly on annuities and as it relates to asset 
>> management) and a hypothetical hedge fund might use. ...
>
> Rumors that a hedge fund is using some technology or another 
> always plays well - almost regardless of the audience, so I 
> might lean into the fact Symmetry is using D a little more.
>
> Any further details not already in the DConf videos and on 
> GitHub libraries would be useful.
>
> Thanks

We use D very heavily at Symmetry and have been investing time 
and money in to using it for 4-5 years, with the amount invested 
increasing significantly over that time. Since I started getting 
involved back then it's gone from me chatting to Laeeth to a 
substantial number of full-time D programmers with quite a few 
familiar faces from these forums & dconf. It's definitely beyond 
the rumour stage at this point!

We are hiring D developers and people with experience in other 
languages, opportunities to write D are plentiful at Symmetry. 
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26312185 for more 
details.