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Thanks, glad you found the post useful. I'm sure C# and Java make excellent programming languages for many if not most financial applications, but I meant that

Thanks, glad you found the post useful. I'm sure C# and Java make excellent programming languages for many if not most financial applications, but I meant that in the context of high-volume Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Basically financial message transformation, explosion, summarization, audit, etc. across multiple financial institutions. The volume of messages to be processed was quite considerable, so nobody even thought about taking the risk of switching from battle-tested C++ to anything else.

throwaway2037 4y ago
I am sure your use case was incredibly specific. For insane performance requirements plus enterprise software that is not greenfield, basically everything is C++. No trolling. Have you ever seen the high-frequency Java stuff from Peter Lawrey's Higher Frequency Ltd.? It is insanely fast. Also, LMAX Disruptor (Java) data structure (ring buffer) is also legendary. I have seen it ported to C++. That said, you can beat all of this with C++, given enough time and resources!