I know people who sit in HK and have been doing HFT/Quant stuff for years and they say something completely different - that Java's popular among biggest tradin

I know people who sit in HK and have been doing HFT/Quant stuff for years and they say something completely different - that Java's popular among biggest trading/stock systems. So saying that > Nor is Java common among HFT shops at all. Sounds weird, especially when it appears among job postings.