I was working there when they switched to that font. A lot of people were furious that their cheese had been moved.

Some backstory on the font that Matthew Carter designed is here: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/how-bloomberg-term...

Some people like it and projects like this have appeared: https://github.com/dchest/bergoom

Ocaml at Bloomberg, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28278553

175 points on Aug 23, 2021 | 138 comments

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

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

Yeah, but I think they just sell convenience and there are projects on GitHub like openbb that piece together something very similar for much less.

Not really. If you ran a restaurant instead, you may also have to buy a few thousand dollars worth of ingredients and pay thousands of dollars in salaries per year and renting a venue to make the revenue that you are making. Even a pizza delivery service may need a few thousand dollars a year for a car and its driver plus petrol, taxes, insurance. Relevant is not the cost of doing business, but the annual revenue and margins.

E.g. $32k cost of business to make $2bn revenue statistically approximates zero.

that's a perverse way of looking at the cost of a service offering.

If that were true, it would cost more than a Toyota RAV4

The entire financial industry is based around unfair advantage.

Can you expand a bit more on this? What first principles?