At Goldman Sachs on every trading and quant desktop you will see a blue turbo pascal ANSI graphics display. That display is the most powerful risk management system ever built, SecDB. It’s been derided for its lack of GUI elements for nearly 30 years. However behind the blue screen is one of the most advanced computing systems around - an instantaneous deployment and roll back wave front monorepo system built around a topologically evaluated memoizing graph of evaluation that provides a high level abstraction of all data and models ever created at Goldman seamlessly stitched together into a total view of everything in the financial world - all stocks, bonds, derivatives, loans, options, airplane parts receivable contract.

People who judge software by the chrome and how recently 1.0 was released are the epitome of fools.

Anyone who thinks the world hasn’t progressed since the 1970’s and they personally have the secret for success are either delusional or grifting you.