I believe that’s true. There still aren’t enough to go around and won’t be for a very long time.

Excel is the closest we’ve come as an industry to building a tool that enables non-programmers to program. If it disappeared tomorrow, as some arrogant posters apparently wish it would, tremendous value would be destroyed. Not just in terms of existing workflows but in terms of new workflows that would not be done in R but instead would be done by hand or not at all.

I’m a hobbyist programmer who has worked in various finance jobs and is now working in investment banking. I would love to use programming in finance but I have to say it’s come in handy very little.