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[–] garyyo@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Python is the connective tissue holding together library calls and some of our most advanced AI research is reliant on that. mildly concerning

[–] TheTrueColonel@lemmy.colonelhosting.com 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files so... Yeah...

[–] Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

If you think that's bad, don't think about how many important communications in the world happen completely verbally.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Pretty much all online service APIs (Google APIs, Facebook and so on) out there are text-based.

Granted, JSON formatted text, but still absolutelly human readable text.

The reason for that is because it's agnostic of the machine architectures (stuff like endianess) on both sides.

The really crazy stuff in banking are the old binary protocols (like EDF) from the time when bandwidth was way less than now (so, the early 90s and earlier).

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

(Nobody tell him about the Cobol batch jobs that still run overnight.)

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't want to know how bad it is. A good friend is a consultant/business analyst for some salesforce-based loan software. Shit's terrifying.

[–] funkless@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SFDC itself is written in Java but uses Javascript-esque APEX for whitelabel development?

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mostly meant the base level shit with text files and ridiculous APIs. Converting from one servicing system to another sounds kind of fun, though. I've always enjoyed doing horrible things to data. The most recent one I heard is there's a drag and drop visual coding tool that I'm told can't export to apex - just make calls to it.

Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files.