Any idea on what technologies/toolkits are used to build Bloomberg terminal?

It used to be built with qt, now I'm guessing the answer is vanilla JS and CSS. You'd be surprised how fast they are without frameworks like react

	▲	apaprocki 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It has never used qt in any way.

apaprocki 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nowadays the desktop software is built around Chromium. Lots of C++ and one of the largest JS codebases in the world.

> largest JS codebases in the world.

I'd love to know how they make frontends as responsive as possible. To the engineering blog!

	▲	ascorbic 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They're very involved in web standards. Rob Palmer from Bloomberg is co-chair of TC39.
	▲	Scubabear68 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		From memory when I worked there 10 years ago, all the Javascript based stuff was pretty slow in a very noticeable way. They've likely gotten better as they are using a well known Javascript and rendering engine, so they're getting many optimizations for free.
	▲	apaprocki 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Here’s a great talk to get you up to speed! https://youtu.be/y1MCLZm8yAY
	▲	mhh__ 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not very responsive