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Has anyone used Golang for high speed trading? It seems like it hits all the sweet spots, yet it doesn't seem to be used that way. Does anyone know why?
by varispeed 6y ago
Has anyone used Golang for high speed trading? It seems like it hits all the sweet spots, yet it doesn't seem to be used that way. Does anyone know why?
- the_only_law 6y agoI remember first seeing Go and taking a look at some of the interesting libraries it shipped with and thinking “this is a systems language” but it appears it mostly got relegated to web backend work.
- whbrown 6y agoWeb backend work at scale is all about building and maintaining distributed systems. Just consider the company where Go was designed ... And indeed, it's still a language of choice for teaching systems design[1]. [1] MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbsvGQk9_UB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...
- ZeroCool2u 6y agoDiscord has an interesting engineering blog post on moving from Go to Rust due to performance issues causes by the Go GC. https://link.medium.com/ZS6jwQCkJbb https://link.medium.com/ZS6jwQCkJbb
- aldanor 6y agoXTX Markets uses Go, I think.
- superdimwit 6y agoFor back office only