[Cthulhu_]

The article mentions crash logs. I can sorta relate, my company has their core application built in C (or C++? idk), and they will often have one FTE slave away for weeks analyzing a crash report / core dump, because apparently the code doesn't give nearly enough information to debug a production crash.

whereas in Java you get an exception, a stack pointing neatly at where the issue was and an error that explains what's going on, and you can fix it and move on.

I'd argue that C-like Java is much easier to debug than C.

[SiebenHeaven]

Fair enough, however I don't get how this ties up to "high speed trading systems". It can be said to be a general developer productivity advantage, not an advantage from technical perspective for this specific domain (which is what I thought the article was about and why I clicked the link)

[SiebenHeaven]

On second thoughts, maybe I underestimate developer productivity?