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🦀 Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust | Databento Blog
｢ We recently faced an interesting decision: what language should we use to rewrite our market data feed handler? Despite Rust's growing popularity in fintech and our own successful use of it in other systems, we chose C++ ｣
https://databento.com/blog/why-we-didnt-rewrite-our-feed-handler-in-rust
@jbz Seems to me that the decision hinged on the team expertise point: Both technical arguments form C++, buffer reuse and self-referential structs, have good solutions in rust.
Team expertise is a good argument, but makes for a less compelling blog post I guess
@jbz
> Team expertise
> While everyone has developed in Rust,
> we have many more years of collective C++ experience
There we go: C++ devs wanting to keep writing C++.
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