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by ochoseis 1745 days ago
Would you use Kotlin again for the back end? Having not yet used it for that purpose, it seems like you’d get the benefit of the JVM ecosystem along with a nice language (but perhaps too many power-features).
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Yes. Kotlin is great for both front and backend.

For that particular use-case (or related financial ones) I'd consider Rust, which was a bit too immature when I was working on this but would give you some extra speed. HFT is winner-take-all and the bar has risen significantly even in the last couple years, so if I were putting my own money at risk now I'd want the absolute fastest processing possible.