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by rezahussain 1948 days ago
I was using this project for my stock trading bot.

Way nicer to use Swift than python for this, and I have rewritten this bot several times in different languages + frameworks (objc php java python swift tf1.0 theano keras s4tf) since 2012.

Doing authentication for brokerage apis + correctness from pulling from the db is easier to get right in Swift than python bc of the static typing + grand central dispatch for parallel queries.

It is also way more productive for me to have the compiler catch issues at the beginning instead of 6 hours into a data generation job where the python interpreter sees a None for something I didn't think of.