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Because you get all the nice tooling around the JVM + safety of running inside the JVM. See https://medium.com/@jadsarmo/why-we-chose-java-for-our-high-frequency-trading-application-600f7c04da94 https://medium.com/@jadsarmo/why-we-chose-java-for-our-high-... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24895395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24895395 > An improvement can be discussed in the morning, and be implemented, tested and released in production in the afternoon.