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While Android/Kotlin keeps Java in the spotlight, Java also powers financial services, high--frequency trading systems, payment gateways, logistics platforms, and even modern microservice deployments. These are not all “legacy”,they’re mission-critical platforms handling billions of transactions daily.

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The exact same argument could be said for COBOL and Fortran.

>high--frequency trading systems

Probably not the Java stack itself, given GC latency and precision timing skew would translate into millions of lost dollars a second. However, people do silly things in the wrong languages all the time. =3

FWIW, I've seen job ads for Java developers in HFT.

It did look weird, of course, but they're also using Go (which iiuc has worse GC latency) or other garbage-collected languages (OCaml being a famous example).

The "heinous-dual-stack-blobs" joke refers to loading native binary objects in the JVM, but its probably some newer naive kludge like RTSJ.

I guess it is like using a Fiat Coupe as a gravel dump-truck. lol =3

It looks like you're not up-to-date, ZGC has pauses on the microsecond dimension. Even since before ZGC was added, there are open source libs for HFT that optimize allocations to avoid GC: https://github.com/openhft =3

Indeed, it is likely some naive kludge like RTSJ

Tend to deprecate Java services for a number of other reasons =3

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