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I’ve never understood it either. I’ve heard people doing similar things with Java in the low-latency trading area. I mean Java isn’t the worst tool out there,

I’ve never understood it either. I’ve heard people doing similar things with Java in the low-latency trading area. I mean Java isn’t the worst tool out there, but even C# outclasses it as a language. The biggest plus for Java is the massive, mature ecosystem which I imagine mostly evaporates when you’re only using a self restrictive subset of the language itself.

kaba0 4y ago
It doesn’t evaporate, more often than not only a small subset of these trading programs need that strict “no heap allocation” policy. The rest of the program is free to take advantage of the huge ecosystem.