An experienced developer reflects on his 18-month journey rebuilding an algorithmic trading platform in Rust, expressing profound disappointment. Despite Rust's reputation for speed and safety, the author found its syntax and error handling to be horrendous, leading to significant frustration and regret. Additionally, the Rust community's unhelpful attitude compounded the difficulties. Ultimately, while Rust has its merits, the author suggests that languages like Go may offer a better balance of speed and ease of development.
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NexusTrade - AI-Powered Algorithmic Trading PlatformGitHub - austin-starks/NextTrade: A system that performs algorithmic tradingI Built an Algorithmic Trading System in Rust. Here’s What I Regret.Anthropic Dominates OpenAI: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4oHorrendous, verbose, unintuitive syntax and semanticsSix Years Ago, this Redditor proposed "the Neckbeard Index". It's DEMOLISHING the MarketHorrendous Error HandlingIf you can’t beat them… steal their idea. Creating a better algotrading systemCrabby Community14 Comments
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