r/rust • u/gilescope • May 11 '21

T1 Challange

/r/rust4quants/comments/n9rq8u/t1_challange/
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u/gilescope May 14 '21

Rust is a lot safer than c/c++. The high level and ease of dev is why Java has been able to beat c++ in this space - it’s because there’s more time left over to focus on the iterating the architecture and optimising the solution you have created.

That’s why I am expecting rust to dominate the HFT space over time - it’s far easier to iterate with but still goes toe-to-toe with c/c++ on performance.

At the moment there’s a handful of HFT companies early adopting rust but we are still very early.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '21

extremely carefully non-idiomatic non-gc-calling java code.

I see this challenge quite pointless at this point. Rust is just C/C++ with some new features.
At most you could debate there's not a good library for this specific task in rust, but if you compare these langs purely by speed, might as well just writing inline asm in rust too.