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by rubinelli 4773 days ago
I wouldn't use Go for high-frequency trading systems yet. But you get 80% of the performance with a lot fewer type declarations.
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I can use Scala and not pay that penalty. I'm looking at Go to replace components of my system where I don't want a full bore JVM, but I have to be thoughtful about latency. I prefer C for this (C++ seems to be the standard there). Would love to move to something like Go once I can.
Well some persons are ready to trust Go even for this http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.de/2013/05/the-reliability-of-g...